Dmitry Marakasov writes: [...]
I strictly object to adding hs- prefix to end-user applications like darcs and xmonad, because it's a huge POLA violation. Users do not care what the application is written in, they just search for devel/{svn,mercurial,darcs} and x11-wm/{xmonad,icewm}, and should find these ports in the expected places. We don't prefix mercurial with py- and icewm with c-, similarily we shouldn't prefix darcs et al with hs-. Modules that are used only for development and as dependencies is a whole different thing, and definitely are what prefixes are for.
I agree with you, but by a pre-existing convention (not carved in stone anywhere, AFAIK) in FreeBSD, I prefer keeping ports prefixed with 'hs-'. 1. Padre, which is an editor hacked in Perl is available from a port named 'p5-Padre'. 2. SpamAssassin, an anti-spam filter is available as 'p5-Mail-SpamAssassin'. 3. Pencil which is a mockup based out-of firefox is available as 'www/xpi-pencil', which even doesn't have anything to do with World Wide Web except that it runs in a www browser, still has name/category like that. 4. Conkeror, the web browser is available as 'xpi-conkeror'. And also having 'hs-' prefix implies their being implemented in Haskell. I'm sure other users who are aware of the convention of p5-, py-, xpi- will try to search for Haskell related app as 'hs-'. So, IMHO 'hs-' for all haskell based ports is a nice idea towards uniformity/symmetry. #v+ % make -C /usr/ports search name=darcs |grep '^Port:' Port: cvs2darcs-0.8 Port: hs-darcs-2.4.3 Port: py26-darcsver-1.5.1 Port: py26-setuptools_darcs-1.2.9 Port: devel/darcs #v- Thanks Ashish SHUKLA -- Sent via Gnus from GNU Emacs They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin