git: 69c9420a212a - main - news/inn-CURRENT: New port to follow CURRENT snaps

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 10:03:16AM -0700, Kevin Bowling wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 9:52 AM Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 08:53:35AM -0700, Kevin Bowling wrote:
> > > ...
> > > There is no technical reason to change the proper names of software,
> > > it's downright silliness.
> >
> > The reason here is mainly organizational, not technical, -- that is,
> > consistency or, as Mark had very nicely put, trying bring some order
> > into the chaos which is immanental to the huge collection of software
> > we have in our ports.  We cannot and should not follow every stupid
> > upstream naming idea (or any other their stupidity, FWIW).
> 
> It's not stupid to respect the naming of other people's work.  FreeBSD
> is FreeBSD, not freebsd, and -CURRENT was -CURRENT not -current.

You're mixing here the proper names and how they map to inherently and
predominantly lowercase Unix naming tradition, which spans from filenames
to APIs.

> If you referred to me as 'kevin' repeatedly I would assume you are lazy
> and not really care.

Note that both your @gmail.com email and freefall login as all lowercase.

> Software naming is not our choice.

We're not arbitrarily changing names, just brush them so they nicely fit
together with other packages we offer to our users.

./danfe