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[Erik Trulsson]

On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 12:40:18PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> 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?

I believe the rule is actually that portnames should not *start* with
an upper-case letter, but that it is allowed in the rest of the name.
That is what the Porter's Handbook says anyway.


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