From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Naming guidelines for ELPA packages Date: Sun, 21 May 2023 17:03:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ttwjbfqq.fsf@gmail.com> <83y1lv5qe9.fsf@gnu.org> <0c04d76f-cca9-8a33-14fe-b9ad96a2b9aa@gmail.com> <87ednjicc0.fsf@posteo.net> <99eafa86-f7fc-8386-cdb4-a9fd706a42a3@gmail.com> <87ttwehfn3.fsf@posteo.net> <87a5y1hreg.fsf@disroot.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22613"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jporterbugs@gmail.com, philipk@posteo.net, eliz@gnu.org, relekarpayas@gmail.com, susam.pal@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Akib Azmain Turja Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 21 23:04:28 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1q0qE8-0005g4-49 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 21 May 2023 23:04:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q0qDb-0000YJ-Fp; Sun, 21 May 2023 17:03:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q0qDa-0000Y6-5u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2023 17:03:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q0qDY-0005Z7-L2; Sun, 21 May 2023 17:03:52 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=so22eh/4j6MG2W/0Ns5LgDmPrynLCxdH7Yc38+zIltU=; b=hEy6w7JS90AH sZxCvt0bqNRm+4yfspxU9Y7EIk171/o9tVd/9lnJgG02MGJKdc5QkypsdPdh0vPTmLlQ6mx9zdfJ4 rkuVMBcj4OA3z8XBrlAL9dk1eqZ7Vxu1QOJOUNZti0iTcJMmzNw4WxvUAo6KkSWwKGyEhRvHcymqR dqXFnRKn0pmcWvLhtMpZjDzIBAYEwAOPhX24IaIJzvolD7CrrVeeT0TU6F0xyz+dQL7Mo8tqScD19 gRLSejjnqe27D9Ni++u5TwkBzZuD8+XVt1X6vqv1PW0NjUBb17FrMe2b5dTmASRC+O5T0dktNeWXa Kp8eL5qbbOE7DSMbwu9zwQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q0qDX-0000g2-GA; Sun, 21 May 2023 17:03:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87a5y1hreg.fsf@disroot.org> (message from Akib Azmain Turja on Fri, 19 May 2023 10:33:11 +0600) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:306256 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > The example name you suggested, "gobject", is indeed a good name, but > there's a little problem that if someone ever comes up with a better > package, it won't find any name for itself. I think there will be no great difficulty. It could be `gobject-2' or `gobj-susan' or many other things that would be somewhat good. So I think Philip's recommendations are good. > One could argue this would help preventing NIH and encouraging people to > contribute to existing projects. If it has a little such effect, that could be beneficial. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)