svn commit: r501873 - in head/biology: . gemma gemma/files

[Jason Bacon]

On 2019-05-18 09:18, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 04:03:48PM +0200, Jan Beich wrote:
>> Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> writes:
>>> On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 08:09:45AM -0500, Jason Bacon wrote:
>>>> Ultimately I chose to follow the pattern of lowercasing the port
>>>> directory (except for special cases like perl and cran) and matching
>>>> the case of PORTNAME with upstream
>>> Vast majority of upstream names use mixed case (most common is first
>>> capital letter), but we and GNU/Linux people don't do that: look at
>>> package names of Firefox, DeaDBeeF, PostgreSQL, etc.
>> - DeaDBeeF installs bin/deadbeef, built from deadbeef-0.7.2.tar.bz2
>> - Firefox installs  bin/firefox, built from firefox-67.0.source.tar.xz
>> - PostgreSQL installs libraries under lib/postgresql + include/postgresql,
>>    built from postgresql-11.3.tar.bz2
> Ditto for this port (bin/gemma).  But that's a minor thing compared to
> general preference in Unix towards lowercase names (binaries, users,
> header files, etc.) which naturally extends to package names as well.
>
> Things should be consistent.  Mixed case jeopardizes this consistency.
>
> ./danfe

I'm not motivated by arguments about stylistic preferences, but given 
the current behavior of pkg, there's a pragmatic issue at-hand.

In some pkg commands, the user must match the case of PORTNAME exactly, 
while in others any mixture of case will work.  This is a source of 
confusion and a nuisance I don't want to impose on users of my ports.

I previously fell on the side of matching upstream based partly on the 
idea that pkg is case-insensitive, which I later discovered is only 
partially true.

With that in mind, I would lean toward lowercasing PORTNAME (except 
where there is a clear convention, as in p5 and CRAN) unless pkg someday 
becomes fully case-insensitive, which would reduce the issue to a matter 
of style.

I'm not sure if there are practical reasons that pkg is case-sensitive 
for some subcommands, but I think it would be more user-friendly to let 
the user just type everything in lowercase.

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