Hi! On Sun, 2018-02-04 at 23:37:39 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> writes: > > Please could you consider using go as new tag name? golang resembles > > too much to one particular implementation name. For other languages > > we have python, not cpython, pypy, jython, we have java, not openjdk.
I do care quite a bit about namespaces, and when checking the request and the bug history, I also considered the possiblity of using go, but discarded it pretty fast and went with the proposed golang name, because the former seems like a terrible name to use on a global namespace. It's at least both a verb, and an ancient game. And golang is definitely *not* the name of any specific implementation, the reference implementation tarballs go by just go, and its compiler by gc (which is also a rather overloaded term). Its wikipedia page even states that it's commonly referred as golang. If we had to add a section for a language named k or q or similar I'd expect it'd be named klang or qlang or something along these lines. We even have some kind of precedent in the archive, with gnu-r and not just r as section, which would be also be terrible. :) > Indeed, the language is called Go, and golang is the web site address: > https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/886054143235719169 Sure, it's still not a very good name on its own when taken out of the programming language context. I'm also very glad the package namespace for golang packages is precisely golang- and not go-, which would also be extremely confusing. > I agree that the new section should ideally be called “Go”. I think this would be a bad idea for our global section-space. > Guillem, thanks for sending the patches in the blocker bugs. Could you > update them to use “Go” instead of “golang” please? I'd rather not see the name changed, so I guess you'll understand that even if ftp-masters would unfortunately decide to go for the change, I won't be very enthused with updating patches. :) Thanks, Guillem
