From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: library/package filename prefixes Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 22:51:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <519940ba-6cf7-4597-8ca7-13961d11b6ae@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="2311"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 05 04:51:45 2020 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 1jVngP-0000Va-RF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 May 2020 04:51:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43266 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVngO-00089e-Se for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:51:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57278) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVnfm-0007Ii-Md for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:51:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45357) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVnfm-0000vO-B6; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:51:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jVnfl-0005qG-DQ; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:51:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <519940ba-6cf7-4597-8ca7-13961d11b6ae@default> (message from Drew Adams on Mon, 4 May 2020 09:19:02 -0700 (PDT)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248929 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. ]]] > 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)