Hi, I propose the following specification:
To avoid confusion and naming clashes with other programming languages, it's desirable that the name of a package for a Java package contains the word "java". If a project already contains the word java, we drop this; for instance, the module ffmpeg-java is packaged under the name java-ffmpeg. Java programs standing for themselves are named as any other package, using the lowercase upstream name. Rational: Like other programming languages (R, Perl, Python, guile, etc.), java has a huge collection of packages/classes. On current distributions I always get confused by names like "felix" or "germonimo" which are not know to me. So to avoid confusion and to be consistent with the other programming languages, I suggest prefixing Java packages with "java-". The specification above is modeled after the one for Python and Perl packages. As of now, gnu/packages/java.scm contains only four definitions (swt, ant, incedtea-6 and icedtea-7), three of which are applications. So only "swt" would be affected when introducing this *now*. Comments are welcome. -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |
