cvs commit: ports/games/py-pychess Makefile

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 06:21:12PM +0400, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote:
> Nicola Vitale wrote on 12.12.2011 17:51:
> >> [2011/12/12 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org>]
> >> [...] perhaps you could consider moving this to a better
> >> named "games/pychess".  Note that py- prefix should not be used for
> >> normal applications.
> > 
> > AFAIK, py- prefix should be used for all port that install files under
> > PYTHON_SITELIBDIR, i.e., that use PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX in their
> > package name.

I've always wondered how this discussion spawns again and again.  :-)

To put it shortly, what's more important is that such ports install files
under "bin/" -- which is the first thing our users care about, not whether
it uses any resources or libraries for its operation (those that go under
PYTHON_SITELIBDIR).

Actually, we have two issues here (quoting my earlier email to cs@):

1) what should be name of the port directory?  My answer is "pychess".  As a
user, I don't really care which language was used to write software.  I want
a chess client, and google tells me there is one named "pychess".  So I
will naturally try to look for it spelled like that.

2) what should be PKGNAME?  Less obvious, but then I'll ask myself, why do I
need to embed the Python version in the package name?  Given sufficient
reasons I might agree, but so far as I see it, it is a self-contained port
with bunch of its local Python stuff under PYTHON_SITELIBDIR, and tainting
both port directory and package name does not bring any noticeable good.

> > audio/py-sonata or www/google-appengine -> www/py-google-appengine,
> > even if they were Python applications.
> > Otherwise, we should rename hundreds of ports, not only that one.

Ideally, yes, however, the cost of such rename is a bit too high.  Instead
we should refine our documentation in this area and try to be more careful
in the future.

> Hmm, i though that PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX is added only if the port in
> question - it's a library. For that reason i omitted py-prefix for
> deskutils/gtg, multimedia/gtk-recordmydesktop, www/zope213 etc. All of
> them install their files into %%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%.

Yes, exactly.  Prefixes are for libraries, extensions, bindings, plugins,
etc. -- "batteries", not for "normal" applications and utilities.

./danfe