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The prefix pattern "rust-parallel" looks better. Jun On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek < zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 09:19:26AM -0500, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > > On Mon, 04 Dec 2017 10:20:13 +0100, you wrote: > > > > >I would like to hear opinion of other packagers about naming. We have > > >`parallel` utility implemented in Rust which is drop-in replacement for > GNU > > >parallel. I was thinking how to name package and how people would > expect it to > > >be named. So far options are: > > > > > >* rust-parallel > > >* parallel-rust > > >* parallel-rs > > > > > >I dislike first one because it is not ending up in completion while > second and > > >third are quite good. > > > > To me the second and third make it look like the package is part of > > the existing parallel package - perhaps rust bindings to parallel - > > and not an entirely different program. > > > > In other words, I could see people install parallel-rust because "it > > must be part of the parallel package" based on its naming and not > > realize it is an entirely different program doing the same thing. > > Yes. In other words, the problem started when somebody decided to > reimplement a well-known existing package in a different language without > changing the name. It seems like the right solution is to ask the > rust-parallel folks to rename their project instead of squatting on an > existing name. > > Zbyszek > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- Jun Aruga jar...@redhat.com IRC: jaruga, Office: TPB(Technology Park Brno) Building C 1F, Brno, Czech Republic
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