svn commit: r436025 - in head/lang: . OpenCoarrays OpenCoarrays/files

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 01:11:30PM +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 12:54:57 +0100 Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org>
> wrote:
> > This was uncalled for.
> > 
> > The *only* reason we use to lowercase the name of a port when upstream
> > is not lowercased is if it provides a lowercased binary to run.

No, we always prefer lowercase, with a few known exceptions.  Every sane
packaging ecosystem does the same (GNU/Linux distributions, Homebrew, you
name it).

> > Say, for example, sysutils/lsof was called upstream LsOf, then we would
> > still call our port lsof, because it provides a binary called lsof.
> > This is not the case here, it only provides caf and cafrun.
> > So people searching for OpenCoarrays will not find it straight away.

They will, because search is universally case-insensitive (that includes
Google and FreshPorts.org) by default.

> I'm on the fence about this, so I went with the name used by the
> maintainer.  I like using lowercase everywhere because you don't have
> to worry about case then, but I'm fine either way.  Note that the port
> can still be found with the original name:
> 
> % make -C /usr/ports search name=OpenCoarrays
> Port:	opencoarrays-1.8.4
> Path:	/usr/ports/lang/opencoarrays
> Info:	Transport layer for coarray Fortran compilers

Exactly.

./danfe