[30149] trunk/dports/gnome/gnome-doc-utils

Anders F Björklund afb at macports.org
Mon Oct 22 23:09:37 PDT 2007


Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:

>> This is what we currently have, except for this new mandatory .diff 
>> suffix (that breaks Ports compatibility)
>
> 	You mean FreeBSD Ports? And, how do we break compatibility? Solely 
> with naming conventions?I wouldn't worry too much about that, as a 
> simple mv(1) is all that's needed to comply ;-) Or is there something 
> else that I'm not seeing?

That's it, that's all.

"README ? Who would know that it's a readable file, README.txt it is.
Makefile ? sheesh, Makefile.mak. And what's this ? A program ? .exe !"

File suffixes suck...
--anders



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