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

Yuri yuri at freebsd.org
Mon Dec 25 10:39:00 UTC 2017


On 12/24/17 05:55, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> $ grep -i libqgl /usr/ports/MOVED
> graphics/libqglviewer||2013-07-26|Has expired: Depends on Qt 3.x
>
> Why it was not properly resurrected but readded as a new port?

I will delete and resurrect it, thanks for noticing!


> More to it, it is badly named.  Most open source repositories name it as
> ``libqglviewer'' (and it was properly named in Qt 3.x times in FreeBSD),
> that includes Debian-based (Ubuntu, Mint, Deepin, etc.) and Arch (I was a
> bit surprised to see mixed-case name in RedHat's and Gentoo's packages).

It has been named QGLViewer by it author. I personally like capitalized 
names. I prefer to name packages the same way as they are commonly 
spelled or known. In this case, the author chose to use capitalization 
for "Q" from Qt, and "GL". These parts are commonly capitalized. 
Partially capitalized names are common in life, and are generally 
perceived as looking aesthetic.

Yuri



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