cvs commit: ports/x11-fonts Makefile ports/x11-fonts/anonymousPro Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/x11-fonts/anonymousPro/files pkg-message.in

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:03:13AM +0100, Pawe? P?kala wrote:
> Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> napisa?(a):
> 
> > Could we please please please stop adding ports with upper-case
> > letters in their names?  Both `anonymous-pro' and `anonymouspro' (as
> > vendor's WWW page) suggest both are much nicer names.
> > 
> > I would appreciate if you readd it and explain this to original
> > submitter.
> 
> It's not entirely submitter fault, I wasn't sure about this naming
> either so I decided to do things by 'The Book' which says in chapter
> 5.2.5 Package Naming Conventions:
> 
> "The first letter of the name part should be lowercase. (The rest of
> the name may contain capital letters, so use your own discretion when
> you are converting a software name that has some capital letters in
> it.)"

This section is a bit misleading.  I believe it tries to embrace cases like
p5-* ports which are OK to be mixed cased for the reasons of retaining
similarity to their CPAN names.  For 99% of other ports this rule should
not be applied.

Especially if "mixed" name looks just plain dumb and ugly.  We should not
uphold upstream's stupidity.

Thanks for readding in advance.

./danfe