From: Pete Gavin <pete@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new package
Date: Thu Feb 22 09:22:01 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010222092128.A17822@cvs.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010220182303.A2550@kabbu.akopia.com>; from jerry@thehutt.org on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 06:23:03PM -0500
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 06:23:03PM -0500, Jerry A! wrote:
> Okay, one comment. Could we please standardize on a naming convention.
> It's like we translate everything to lowercase for the directory names
> with the notable exceptions of the contents of x11-wm/ and one or two
> other directories.
>
> Yeah, it's silly and it's small potatoes. But I think that there is
> something to be said for the hobgoblin of this small mind and having
> some consistency.
Daniel, maybe you could make portage print out a simple warning
message if the package name contains any uppercase characters? That
way people new to gentoo that make new packages will know the names
should be en all-lowercase.
Pete
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-22 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-20 16:19 [gentoo-dev] new package Pete Gavin
2001-02-20 16:23 ` Jerry A!
2001-02-20 16:35 ` Pete Gavin
2001-02-20 17:43 ` drobbins
2001-02-22 9:22 ` Pete Gavin [this message]
2001-02-22 9:29 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-22 9:37 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-22 9:58 ` Jerry A!
2001-02-22 10:12 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-22 10:29 ` drobbins
2001-02-22 10:36 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-22 11:05 ` Jerry A!
2001-02-22 11:07 ` drobbins
2001-02-22 11:37 ` Jerry A!
2001-02-22 12:10 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-22 12:12 ` drobbins
2001-02-22 12:27 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-22 12:48 ` Jerry A!
2001-02-22 11:24 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-22 10:37 ` Jerry A!
2001-02-22 10:42 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-22 11:02 ` Jerry A!
2001-02-22 11:46 ` Achim Gottinger
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2001-03-11 14:54 Pete Gavin
2001-03-11 15:51 ` drobbins
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