svn commit: r436025 - in head/lang: . OpenCoarrays OpenCoarrays/files

[Mathieu Arnold]

Le 14/03/2017 à 13:25, Alexey Dokuchaev a écrit :
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 01:11:30PM +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 12:54:57 +0100 Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org>
>> wrote:
>>> This was uncalled for.
>>>
>>> The *only* reason we use to lowercase the name of a port when upstream
>>> is not lowercased is if it provides a lowercased binary to run.
> No, we always prefer lowercase, with a few known exceptions.  Every sane
> packaging ecosystem does the same (GNU/Linux distributions, Homebrew, you
> name it).

Well, no. *You* prefer lowercase, but *we*, as a project, do not. But
you have been badgering people long enough that everyone thinks it is a
rule.

The *only* reference to case in the porter's handbook is in an example,
and only for single binary ports.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold


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