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

[wen heping]

2011/11/30 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org>:
> 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

How about py-* ports ?

wen

> 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