From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: library/package filename prefixes
Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 22:51:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1jVnfl-0005qG-DQ@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <519940ba-6cf7-4597-8ca7-13961d11b6ae@default> (message from Drew Adams on Mon, 4 May 2020 09:19:02 -0700 (PDT))
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> FWIW, I proposed a minimum of 2 chars (plus hyphen).
> I think that's good. What's a good reason for going
> to 3 instead of 2?
The namespace of 2-letter prefixes seems somewhat cramped to me.
Every package that uses such a prefix will have to be discussed
regarding whether it is entitled to one.
A rule saying "use at least three" would not cause any real trouble
and would mostly eliminate that problem.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-05 2:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-01 21:07 library/package filename prefixes Drew Adams
2020-05-02 18:35 ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-03 3:39 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-03 4:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-04 3:08 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-04 12:13 ` Eric Ludlam
2020-05-04 14:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04 15:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-04 16:19 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-05 2:51 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-05-05 4:39 ` Drew Adams
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