cvs commit: ports/x11 Makefile ports/x11/Terminal Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist

Jeremy Messenger mezz7 at cox.net
Thu Jan 27 11:40:01 PST 2005


On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:35:41 +0100, Kirill Ponomarew  
<krion at voodoo.oberon.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 11:31:05AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> > > I thought we were preferring lowercased port names?
>> >
>> > Even if the author of that software have choseen to write and use it
>> > uppercase?
>>
>> This is discussed in the porters' handbook.
>
> We're currently living with 77 uppercased PORTNAMEs' though.

Yes, compare to thousands. The 77 uppercased port should be change to  
lowercase. When I used to visit forum often and few rookie users can't  
find abiword, because it was 'AbiWord'. I think, it does matter.

Cheers,
Mezz

> -Kirill


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