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

[Pav Lucistnik]

On 2011/11/30 10:35, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:19:01AM +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
>> On 2011/11/30 10:12, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>>> Seriously, you really think that e.g. `audio/deadbeef' port (and plethora
>>> of others) should be named `audio/deaDBeeF' (official name is DeaDBeeF)?
>>>
>>> (In case of DeaDBeeF I do not consider this name stupid at all.  It just
>>> does not fit as is into ports collection.)
>>
>> Since it is the official capitalization used by vendor, I would not
>> oppose audio/deaDBeeF neither audio/DeaDBeeF (preferred).
>
> But first letter should be lowercase, no? (yes, pun intended). :-)

It is you who wants a policy about everything, so sure, to follow the 
letter of the law, it needs to be lowercase.

If it was up to me, I'd let it be uppercase.

> Pav, ports collection constitutes some ten years of maintaining open source
> software (largely diverse), and I do not think that we should either
> strictly adhere to any policy or ignore it.  Natural evolution of all those
> little things, names included, is very important indicator of what our
> community feels (in its majority) about the way things should be carried
> out.  What you seem to suggest goes against observable traditions and does
> not help to improve anything in any way.
>
> (Frankly, I still don't believe you're being serious here.)

Newsflash: the community does not really care about these marginalities.

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Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
               <pav at FreeBSD.org>