textproc/p5-ack -> textproc/ack rename

[Andrej Zverev]

Ok, three voted for and one against.

lord Crees with patch WON ;-)


On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Lars Balker <lars at balker.dk> wrote:

> ack is one of perl's little guerrilla marketing success stories - I don't
> think it's in anyone's interest to "hide" it behind the p5- label.
>
> Also, we don't call firefox c++-firefox.  p5- is primarily a way to label
> "library for perl" not "app writting in perl, distributed through cpan"
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Anton Berezin <tobez at tobez.org> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 11:29:18PM +0400, Andrej Zverev wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Sébastien Santoro
> > > <dereckson at espace-win.org>wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > >     I would like to submit a patch to remove the p5- prefix for
> p5-ack
> > > > port?
> > > >
> > > >     Rationale: not a Perl module, but a standalone utility.
> > > >     The goal of this utility is to provide an alternative to grep.
> > > >     The fact it's written in Perl isn't pertinent.
> > > >
> > > >     Do you see any objection (e.g. anything on CPAN is p5-) or can I
> > open
> > > > a PR?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hello.
> > > I don't see any reason in such change.
> > > We have many perl's stuff, which have installed something in bin/  (for
> > > example www/p5-App-gist devel/p5-cpan-listchanges) and it's lives with
> > > prefix without any problem. Even if it not perl module, it's 100% perl
> > > script which using own modules and external also.
> > > So find and rename all of them (ports with such facts) or leave it as
> is.
> >
> > While I agree with the second part of what you said - that is, I think it
> > might be a good idea to rename them all, I see no reason not to start
> > small,
> > with the change proposed by Sébastien. :-)
> >
> > \Anton.
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