lowercase requirement for py-ports (Re: svn commit: r405240 - in head/devel: . py-PyLD)

[Mikhail T.]

On 04.01.2016 11:04, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
> No discussion archive
Well, if it is not a result of a discussion arriving to a consensus,
then, perhaps, the rule is not as hard, is it? What are you reasons
behind it?
> also PyPI is case insensitive

Ah, good to know. Perhaps, that's because Python has to work on OSes
with case-insensitive filesystems. But FreeBSD is not among those...

> FWIW, some of the current practice also includes arbitrarily changing
> the names/versions, missing prefixes/suffixed (causing known conflicts),
> among other non-standard things.
I agree, that /these/ things are best avoided. Mixed-case portnames,
however, are not so obviously wrong.
> My guess is also that multi-case ports are in the minority.
It is a /substantial/ minority. Analyzing the INDEX-10 here, I get:

    % awk -F\| '$1 ~ /.*[A-Z].*/ {upper++} {total++} END {print upper "
    of " total " ports have capital letter in name"}' INDEX-10
    6312 of 25575 ports have capital letter in name

Yours,

    -mi