On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Philip Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I like the idea of s/_/-/g when going from catalog names to pkgnames. >> Thissentenceismymainargumentforusingdashesitsjusthardtoread. I would >> really like to have a blessed word separator for the pkgnames. Sun >> packages uses cases, the have something like SUNWonewordSECONDWORD. I >> perceive it as ugly. >> >> >> The consistency I'm definitely for is that we achieve consensus, it >> gets documented, and we follow it. >> > > well, in some cases, the CSWxxx name doesnt realliyhave to be > "readable", that's what our "software name" is for. the PKG name is > there almost just as a placeholder. > > and an argument AGAINST having - in the names: > > CSWxxx-yyy does not double-click-select in xterm. you ahve to click > and drag to select it. > in contrast, some_software_name selects as a single word.
Looks like your terminal emulator is broken. Pick a non-broken one or fix yours! ;-) > So, another vote for "no - in PKG names at all", if we are insisting > on One True Standard. Should we write up the pros and cons so we can have a nice overview picture of the pros and cons? I'd also like to point out that what I would like to have is not the dash character explicitly, what I'd like to have is a word separator. It can be dashes, underscores, CamelCase, or anything else, I don't care what specifically. I would just like to be able to have visually separate words in the pkgnames. Maciej _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
