svn commit: r377721 - in head/devel/newfile: . files

[Lars Engels]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:21:20PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:48:06PM +1100, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
> > On 23/01/2015 10:02 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > > TBH, we should have never allowed to have dotted port names in the first
> > > place.  It already caused problems with e.g. ".core"-suffixed ports that
> > > had to be renamed or something like that in the past.  I think it's quite
> > > clear that using dot in names is asking for trouble (and such names look
> > > plain ugly), but people just can't refrain from using dot. :-(  Maybe it
> > > is some kind of mental disorder similar to incomprehensible predilection
> > > some people exhibit to Comic Sans font.
> > 
> > Blame me, I asked for it. POLA violation when I ran port create. It
> > created py-gandi
> > 
> > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/gandi.cli
> 
> It would all be much easier if those dotted ports were s/\./-/g prior to
> adding them.

+1
Would be nice to have this in the PH.
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