On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Wolodja Wentland <deb...@babilen5.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 15:56 -0300, Miguel Landaeta wrote: > > There are not many Clojure libraries and I still prefer a $LANG-$LIBRARY > naming > scheme as is used by, for example the Python team. But then there are > numerous examples of the lib$LIBRARY-$LANG scheme in the archive (e.g. -perl) > to consider it an established one. If you (or anybody else) deems it important > to use a consistent scheme for all JVM languages then we could (and should > /now/) decide to do so and rename the few packages accordingly.
I consider important to have a consistent scheme for all these JVM languages that we are including in the archive. I prefer to use lib$LIBRARY-$LANG scheme. > >> I maintain GPars package and I named it libgpars-groovy-java but I >> always thought this package name is not quite right. > > This naming scheme (i.e. lib$LIBRRARY-$LANG-java) looks indeed quite strange > and I would have never considered it for Clojure libraries. First and foremost > because Clojure does not only run on the JVM (there are CLR and Python > implementations), but also because it is not really related to Java (but the > JVM at best). All these languages are languages in their own right and just > happen to be implemented on the JVM now and we should take that into account > when naming packages. Yes, that naming scheme reflects my inexperience at that time when I packaged GPars. I intend to fix it during jessie development. Cheers, -- Miguel Landaeta, miguel at miguel.cc secure email with PGP 0x6E608B637D8967E9 available at http://keyserver.pgp.com/ "Faith means not wanting to know what is true." -- Nietzsche -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAHUk4ky=w1tvue0pjammzm9qv71j2gts9hav9odtzvlxx53...@mail.gmail.com
