On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:38:19 -0600 William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 07:47:01PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:02:48 -0500 > > Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > The devmanual states: > > > > > > The name section should contain only lowercase non-accented letters, > > > the digits 0-9, hyphens, underscores and plus characters. Uppercase > > > characters are strongly discouraged, but technically valid. > > > > > > https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html > > > > > > > > > Why are uppercase characters strongly discouraged? > > > > > > Wouldn't it make sense to follow upstream's naming convention? > > > > I'd say keeping things lowercase makes sense for end user packages. For > > pure dependencies with consistent conventions (e.g. perl), it makes > > sense to keep upstream's naming. > > I'm not advocating renaming this, but I found an example of this when > looking to package something: > > dev-python/configargparse is called ConfigArgParse upstream. > If we had named it dev-python/ConfigArgParse, we wouldn't need to set > MY_PN, MY_P or S in our ebuild, and I wouldn't have had to check the > package to see if it was the same as the package I need to depend on. I should also add a statistical point that I've already seen 2 or 3 times Gentoo developers committing duplicate packages (i.e. missing a package already there, under a different name/category). -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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