[*yes, I'm responding to myself (I tend to do that sometimes)*] Hmm.... I suspect part of it may be coming from this PackagePublishing wiki page <https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackagePublishing#subdirectories>, where it's mentioned almost as a foregone conclusion yet may often be interpreted as a recommendation.
However, I'll assume the genesis is elsewhere. On Saturday, December 23, 2017 at 10:18:14 AM UTC-8, Tim Peoples wrote: > > > I've noticed a somewhat common practice of people naming their github > repositories with a "go-" prefix (and then, of course, subsequently > dropping the prefix in the actual package name) -- yet a similar naming > scheme doesn't seem to be commonplace among many other languages. > > Is this recommended somewhere? If so, where? > > Conversely, is it explicitly discouraged? > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
