svn commit: r456674 - in head/graphics: . libQGLViewer libQGLViewer/files

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Tue Dec 26 07:10:37 UTC 2017


On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 10:56:09AM -0800, Yuri wrote:
> On 12/25/17 03:20, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > "Official" names look good in documentation and port description, but not
> > so as port's directory and PORTNAME.  The fact that it was earlier named
> 
> Yeah .... let's just disagree on that one.

Again, this is not a merely matter of taste.  You're breaking consistency,
both with our own existing port names and other OS/distros repositories.

It brings some minor, but annoying technical issues, e.g. due to different
sorting order based on one's locale (collation rules); people now have to
remember to call grep(1) with `-i' more often -- not that is wasn't a good
idea before, but you're stretching the surface for potential errors and
mistakes.  For no sound, substantial, technical and/or usability benefits
-- quite on the contrary sometimes, as eloquently noted in Tijl's email.

Please take some time and think about it as a software engineer working on
a large project with huge number of ports, and a member of large community.

./danfe


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