Dear David
It is your package and you can choose the name you prefer. If you feel
uncomfortable with the current one then change it. I do not think anyone
else's opinion is relevant unless a package author picks a name that all
right thinking people would find offensive.
On 11/06/2017 14:51, David Hugh-Jones wrote:
Hello all,
A short while ago I released the "huxtable" package for writing HTML and
LaTeX tables:
https://www.github.com/hughjonesd/huxtable
The name seemed cute to me, but I later found out that to Americans it has
special associations. The Huxtables were the family in the Cosby show. That
would be fine, except that Bill Cosby is now on trial for one case of rape,
and there are accusations of many other cases.
So, two questions:
* Do you think I should change the name?
Comments welcome from Americans and others on this difficult cultural issue.
* If I do, what's the best and least disruptive way to do it? Bear in mind
that I have a couple of thousand users.
My first thought would be to release an update which gives a warning about
the future change when the package is loaded; then release a package with
the new name and continue development on this branch.
David
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