From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 4 11:26:36 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FF98106566B; Wed, 4 May 2011 11:26:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bf1783@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-px0-f176.google.com (mail-px0-f176.google.com [209.85.212.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 321128FC17; Wed, 4 May 2011 11:26:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi11 with SMTP id 11so732804pxi.35 for ; Wed, 04 May 2011 04:26:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=4j7Krgx7k6zbfxuBkudiZXdAfbjKYIRLzZrngXCykxw=; b=JRDTl3SyiKC803K2iLfN8ZfU+C7JxgigrS0WX+MUHIJmIWmxWfTSGZtps4vHc4XWc/ 5b06V3T0iotdIivzZXJIAqwnYeZ8LXxjtGRY9z4snOdcSgsXIsBe3Zc+WWKIVbQbU65W ZXub8VbV0ftiMmDA6ViL8/0B3d4IQQa+IzTvc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ZVawJHYcZq2xWHTVHAWxvU22sLLcB+aYDR0rWgq8RX28ANu7O1ntCRUijBMRfGPEXB o8ZHUg1xj7W7U5yzzkGXewbJ2RdI+7r08V8oKOAWZ3zkqVBhIupOsjUSyMlMSuDeF6Xp 81/GYkufWI6h34s0pWsirR/yBdlPA7LT1BTiE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.27.71 with SMTP id r7mr1299964pbg.385.1304508395437; Wed, 04 May 2011 04:26:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.55.136 with HTTP; Wed, 4 May 2011 04:26:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4DC11C2D.2010006@FreeBSD.org> References: <201105020531.p425VDbe056515@repoman.freebsd.org> <4DBE60CE.5090305@FreeBSD.org> <4DBE63F6.2050602@FreeBSD.org> <4DBF08A2.1070208@FreeBSD.org> <1304450016.3028.6.camel@hood.oook.cz> <4DC11C2D.2010006@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 07:26:34 -0400 Message-ID: From: "b. f." To: Pav Lucistnik Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Gabor PALI , Doug Barton , cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, Ashish SHUKLA , cvs-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/hs-BNFC Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/devel/hs-filemanip Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/textproc/hs-lhs2tex Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bf1783@gmail.com List-Id: **OBSOLETE** CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 11:26:36 -0000 On 5/4/11, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > On 2011/05/04 00:46, b. f. wrote: >> On 5/3/11, Pav Lucistnik wrote: >>> Doug Barton p=ED=B9e v po 02. 05. 2011 v 12:40 -0700: >>>> On 05/02/2011 00:57, Gabor PALI wrote: >>>>> On 05/02/11 09:44, Doug Barton wrote: >>>>>> On 05/01/2011 22:31, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: >>>>>>> devel/bnfc -> devel/hs-BNFC >>>>>> >>>>>> I thought we didn't do new upper-case port names on purpose? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> It stems from HackageDB [1]. The port will be converted to a >>>>> bsd.cabal.mk [2] consumer soon. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/BNFC >>>>> [2] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/lang/ghc/bsd.cabal.mk >>>> >>>> I'm sorry, I don't understand this response. I realize that there are >>>> some software packages that have upper-case letters in their names. >>>> However, my understanding is that we are not using upper-case letters >>>> for new portnames. Is my understanding incorrect? >>> >>> My understanding is that the first letter must be lowercase, next >>> letters are allowed to be uppercase if there's a good reason ie. >>> upstream naming. >>> >> >> We have some existing conventions that don't conform to this rule, and >> will affect the addition of new ports. The CRAN ports use R-cran-*, >> and more of these ports will be added. Do you want us to move these >> to r-cran-* ? > > It's a guideline not a law. > > No I don't think these need to be changed retroactively. Actually R is > such a well recognized software name while r means nothing, so I'd not > want to see math/R renamed either. > Alright, we'll continue to use the existing convention. I wasn't really looking forward to having to move them, but I thought I should at least ask, if enough people thought that capital letters were inconvenient to create the guideline in the first place, and Debian seems to get by with gnu-r and r-cran-*. b.