[pacman-dev] Letter case in pacman output
I briefly talked with Allan on IRC about changing letter casing in pacman's output (e.g. when running 'pacman -Qi'), and he stated that I should gather feedback on the mailing list. I would like to change from using title case to using sentence case where appropriate. An example of the change would be the following snippet from 'pacman -Qi'. ** Currently: Depends On : coreutils linux-firmware kmod mkinitcpio>=0.7 Optional Deps : crda: to set the correct wireless channels of your country [installed] Required By : None Optional For : None Conflicts With : kernel26 Replaces : kernel26 Installed Size : 65562.00 KiB ** After the proposed change: Depends on : coreutils linux-firmware kmod mkinitcpio>=0.7 Optional deps : crda: to set the correct wireless channels of your country [installed] Required by : None Optional for : None Conflicts with : kernel26 Replaces : kernel26 Installed size : 65562.00 KiB Pros: I think it looks better aesthetically (although Allan disagrees) and looks more professional. Cons: Increased workload for translators for the next pacman release. Jason
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:51:04PM +0200, Jason St. John wrote:
I briefly talked with Allan on IRC about changing letter casing in pacman's output (e.g. when running 'pacman -Qi'), and he stated that I should gather feedback on the mailing list.
I would like to change from using title case to using sentence case where appropriate.
But they are titles...
An example of the change would be the following snippet from 'pacman -Qi'.
** Currently: Depends On : coreutils linux-firmware kmod mkinitcpio>=0.7 Optional Deps : crda: to set the correct wireless channels of your country [installed] Required By : None Optional For : None Conflicts With : kernel26 Replaces : kernel26 Installed Size : 65562.00 KiB
** After the proposed change: Depends on : coreutils linux-firmware kmod mkinitcpio>=0.7 Optional deps : crda: to set the correct wireless channels of your country [installed] Required by : None Optional for : None Conflicts with : kernel26 Replaces : kernel26 Installed size : 65562.00 KiB
Pros: I think it looks better aesthetically (although Allan disagrees) and looks more professional.
I agree with Allan here. Also, if you look at yum/rpm, then you will see this same case style[1]. Debian's apt also does similar things, but their variables are separated by -'s not spaces, so they look something like this: Multi-Arch: foreign Which seems weird to me, but oh well. [1]: root@wcentos:/root # rpm -qi openssh Name : openssh Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 5.3p1 Vendor: CentOS Release : 84.1.el6 Build Date: Thu 21 Feb 2013 09:51:49 PM CST Install Date: Fri 26 Apr 2013 09:10:55 PM CDT Build Host: c6b9.bsys.dev.centos.org Group : Applications/Internet Source RPM: openssh-5.3p1-84.1.el6.src.rpm Size : 675617 License: BSD Signature : RSA/SHA1, Sat 23 Feb 2013 11:42:27 AM CST, Key ID 0946fca2c105b9de Packager : CentOS BuildSystem <http://bugs.centos.org> URL : http://www.openssh.com/portable.html Summary : An open source implementation of SSH protocol versions 1 and 2 ... root@wcentos:/root #
Cons: Increased workload for translators for the next pacman release.
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On May 29, 2013 5:51 PM, "Jason St. John" <jstjohn@purdue.edu> wrote:
I briefly talked with Allan on IRC about changing letter casing in pacman's output (e.g. when running 'pacman -Qi'), and he stated that I should gather feedback on the mailing list.
-1 from me. This is useless churn.
I would like to change from using title case to using sentence case where appropriate.
An example of the change would be the following snippet from 'pacman -Qi'.
** Currently: Depends On : coreutils linux-firmware kmod mkinitcpio>=0.7 Optional Deps : crda: to set the correct wireless channels of your country [installed] Required By : None Optional For : None Conflicts With : kernel26 Replaces : kernel26 Installed Size : 65562.00 KiB
** After the proposed change: Depends on : coreutils linux-firmware kmod mkinitcpio>=0.7 Optional deps : crda: to set the correct wireless channels of your country [installed] Required by : None Optional for : None Conflicts with : kernel26 Replaces : kernel26 Installed size : 65562.00 KiB
Pros: I think it looks better aesthetically (although Allan disagrees) and looks more professional. Cons: Increased workload for translators for the next pacman release.
Jason
On 29.05.2013 23:51, Jason St. John wrote:
I briefly talked with Allan on IRC about changing letter casing in pacman's output (e.g. when running 'pacman -Qi'), and he stated that I should gather feedback on the mailing list.
I would like to change from using title case to using sentence case where appropriate.
-1 It's a rather large change resulting in a lot of unnecessary work. I don't care much about the casing but changing it now is a waste of time.
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Florian Pritz <bluewind@xinu.at> wrote:
On 29.05.2013 23:51, Jason St. John wrote:
I briefly talked with Allan on IRC about changing letter casing in pacman's output (e.g. when running 'pacman -Qi'), and he stated that I should gather feedback on the mailing list.
I would like to change from using title case to using sentence case where appropriate.
-1
It's a rather large change resulting in a lot of unnecessary work. I don't care much about the casing but changing it now is a waste of time.
Given that there are 4 "no" votes already, I'll just kill this idea off now and withdraw my proposal. Thanks for the quick feedback! Jason
participants (4)
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Dave Reisner
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Florian Pritz
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Jason St. John
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William Giokas