[OpenFontLibrary] licence

[Kess Vargavind]

Some inputs from a “lurker”. ;-)

While personally I would prefer FONTLOG, since all capitals stands out
among the other files. And to me, all capitals denote a file with
metacontents. I did not like this naming convention a few years ago,
but its practicality has grown on me.

That aside, why not accept the file regardless of casing and, partly,
file extension as well? The versions I remember seeing are:

FONTLOG
FontLog.txt
fontlog.txt

On the other hand, I can see the benefits of making one form mandatory.

Kess

p. s. Best wishes to you on your work on the new site!

2009/3/22 Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com>:
> I'm happy for it to be lowercase and in text not have the file extention,
> and to promote a .txt file extension in contributed zip files.
>
> Regards, Dave
>
> On 22 Mar 2009, 11:41 AM, "Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>
> wrote:
>
> Le dimanche 22 mars 2009 à 11:24 +0000, Ben Weiner a écrit :
>
>> Hi, > > Robert Martinez wrote: > > also should we use "FONTLOG" or
>> "Fontlog" (is there a reason f...
>
> INSTALL and README are historic gnu-isms. The upper-casing was used for
> projects that dumped every single file in the install root instead of
> using subdirectories (caps sort first in ASCII).
>
> However,
> 1. this convention does not work well for systems which are not
> case-sensitive
> 2. this convention does not work well for systems that use localized not
> ASCII sort (pretty much every modern system)
> 3. this convention does not work well for systems that use extensions to
> auto-select the right application to use (that includes web servers that
> deduce the mime type to serve from the extension)
>
> In other words, it's a legacy remnant that should die die die. Please
> use fontlog.txt and readme.txt instead. And if you have so many files in
> your archive those files are hidden in the mass, put the other stuff in
> subdirectories, keeping only the main files in the root
>
> --
> Nicolas Mailhot
>