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[b. f.]

On 5/3/11, Pav Lucistnik <pav at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Doug Barton píše v po 02. 05. 2011 v 12:40 -0700:
>> On 05/02/2011 00:57, Gabor PALI wrote:
>> >   On 05/02/11 09:44, Doug Barton wrote:
>> >> On 05/01/2011 22:31, Ashish SHUKLA wrote:
>> >>>     devel/bnfc ->   devel/hs-BNFC
>> >>
>> >> I thought we didn't do new upper-case port names on purpose?
>> >>
>> >
>> > It stems from HackageDB [1].  The port will be converted to a
>> > bsd.cabal.mk [2] consumer soon.
>> >
>> >
>> > [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/BNFC
>> > [2] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/lang/ghc/bsd.cabal.mk
>>
>> I'm sorry, I don't understand this response. I realize that there are
>> some software packages that have upper-case letters in their names.
>> However, my understanding is that we are not using upper-case letters
>> for new portnames. Is my understanding incorrect?
>
> My understanding is that the first letter must be lowercase, next
> letters are allowed to be uppercase if there's a good reason ie.
> upstream naming.
>

We have some existing conventions that don't conform to this rule, and
will affect the addition of new ports.  The CRAN ports use R-cran-*,
and more of these ports will be added.  Do you want us to move these
to r-cran-* ?

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