Sergey Skvortsov píše v pá 20. 01. 2006 v 14:27 +0300:
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> Edwin Groothuis wrote:
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> >> Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> >>>>   FreeBSD ports repository
> >>>>
> >>>>   Added files:
> >>>>     net/ssldump/files    patch-ssl%ssldecode.c 
> >>> Did I miss a naming-convention change?
> >
> >> History repeats itself... Ok.
> >>
> >> 1. I dislike "_" as path delimiter. It's not so obvious and aesthetic as
> >> "::" or "%".
> > 
> > I don't like it neither, but I accepted the fact that there was a
> > proper naming standard for it so at least this wildgrowth of patch
> > files would be resolved.
> 
> First of all, it is not a "proper naming standard". I always suggest to
> use SHOULD/MUST/etc words (RFC 2119) in "Porters' Handboook" to avoid
> any incomprehension. In current situation I prefer to treat "Please only
> use characters [-+._a-zA-Z0-9]" as "You SHOULD use characters
> [-+._a-zA-Z0-9]".
> 
> Many committers do not like this "convention". Hence the above regex
> should be reviewed and extended. There is no technical problems with
> additional ":%" symbols. Patch names must be convenient, not procrustean.

Actually the policy was installed because % in file names gave problems
when importing CVS into Perforce.

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Pav Lucistnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I can't do that, that would make sense.

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