On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 06:04:57PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > there are however some issues... > > I have packaged pyncurses (http://pyncurses.sourceforge.net), which is > > a new, object oriented interface for ncurses. > > I cannot rename it to python-ncurses, since that is an upstream > > name of another program (and python-curses is yet another). > I'm sorry, I didn't find python-ncurses anywhere (neither with Freshmeat > nor Google). But I found pyncurses.
Sorry, my mistake... it is called "new cursesmodule" (http://andrich.net/python/selfmade.html) Forget I wrote anything about it :-) > > Anyway, naming conflicts is a problem. So when a conflict, keeping the > original name (this should be discussed) is a good solution, at the moment. > > > python-pyncurses is a pleonasm, and looks like python interface for > > pyncurses. > You're right, this is nonsense. > > > So far I have settled on plain pyncurses, moreover if all the libraries for > > python have to begin with python- (and similarily for perl etc.), it looks > > like hungarian notation, which few people like. > It is only a way of naming packages, not libraries themselves of course. > All binary libraries packages begin with lib (and in Debian, more than in > other > distribution) and it is more practical for many reasons (mainly searching) > Why not doing the same with python libs? > I am not a priori against, but there has to be a limit somewhere, and I guess this is a borderline case. (why not name all the binary files with bin- prefix, all packages dealing with sound with sound- prefix etc...) -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
