diff options
| author | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
| commit | 1be510f9529cb082f802408b472a77d074b394c0 (patch) | |
| tree | b175f9d5fcb107576dabc768e7bd04d4a3e491a0 /zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-January/011652.html | |
| parent | fa5098cf210b23ab4f419913e28af7b1b07dafb2 (diff) | |
| download | archives-master.tar archives-master.tar.gz archives-master.tar.bz2 archives-master.tar.xz archives-master.zip | |
Diffstat (limited to 'zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-January/011652.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-January/011652.html | 86 |
1 files changed, 86 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-January/011652.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-January/011652.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..55c8e0369 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-January/011652.html @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] RFC Package Naming Policy + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20RFC%20Package%20Naming%20Policy&In-Reply-To=%3CCAONrEtZp6c0bG2xUu8TpU1qLGoFRQDGmcoMh3t9oC6ZyVHmtSA%40mail.gmail.com%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="011646.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="011644.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] RFC Package Naming Policy</H1> + <B>Thierry Vignaud</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20RFC%20Package%20Naming%20Policy&In-Reply-To=%3CCAONrEtZp6c0bG2xUu8TpU1qLGoFRQDGmcoMh3t9oC6ZyVHmtSA%40mail.gmail.com%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] RFC Package Naming Policy">thierry.vignaud at gmail.com + </A><BR> + <I>Mon Jan 30 21:58:11 CET 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="011646.html">[Mageia-dev] RFC Package Naming Policy +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="011644.html">[Mageia-dev] sudo security update +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#11652">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#11652">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#11652">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#11652">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>On 30 January 2012 20:15, Jerome Quelin <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">jquelin at gmail.com</A>> wrote: +>><i> Some of you may notice that the newly drafted policy allows +</I>>><i> upper-case letters in packages as an exception (when justified). +</I>>><i> This is to follow the current practice (which is not following the +</I>>><i> current policy, where we have packages like R-base). +</I>>><i> I don't want to raise a heated discussion (there was an inconclusive +</I>>><i> discussion a long time ago on cooker [*]) about enforcing an all +</I>>><i> lower-case policy. Not sure a consensus can be reached today, but +</I>>><i> lower-casing package names should be the default for 99% of the +</I>>><i> packages in Mageia. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> except it cannot be. perl module Foo::Bar is shipped in package +</I>><i> perl-Foo-Bar since quite a lot of time, per policy. so the ~2500 perl +</I>><i> packages are almost all using some upper-case, which make your 99% +</I>><i> figure totally wrong (2500 / 10000 = ~25% using upper case) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> note that perl packages shipping an application or a script useful on +</I>><i> their own do follow the policy and are called eg perlbrew, nopaste, +</I>><i> grok, etc. +</I> +Well, the low case names policy did was a policy for years. +We slowly killed most upcase names over the years, perl being an +exception. +I think we should enforce it modulo perl +</PRE> + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="011646.html">[Mageia-dev] RFC Package Naming Policy +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="011644.html">[Mageia-dev] sudo security update +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#11652">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#11652">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#11652">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#11652">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |