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On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:02:48 -0500 |
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Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote: |
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> The devmanual states: |
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> The name section should contain only lowercase non-accented letters, |
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> the digits 0-9, hyphens, underscores and plus characters. Uppercase |
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> characters are strongly discouraged, but technically valid. |
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> https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html |
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> Why are uppercase characters strongly discouraged? |
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> Wouldn't it make sense to follow upstream's naming convention? |
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I think so. |
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In at least one of the pkgs I created, I used mixed case to prevent |
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conflicts with other existing projects that google, pypi, etc. |
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searching returned results for. But still have the name represent what |
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it did. |
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Brian Dolbec <dolsen> |
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