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: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: devil Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 18:12:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ttwjbfqq.fsf@gmail.com> <83y1lv5qe9.fsf@gnu.org> <87ednkaeqp.fsf@posteo.net> 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="26402"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, philipk@posteo.net To: Susam Pal Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 16 00:13:48 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 1pygRv-0006hR-LE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 16 May 2023 00:13:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pygQz-0000ld-DO; Mon, 15 May 2023 18:12:49 -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 1pygQx-0000lP-QX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 May 2023 18:12:47 -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 1pygQx-0005zm-E1; Mon, 15 May 2023 18:12:47 -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=Ig/q+hPYvFGWDYvWyRVa/fQF0tWahGSHNZxKKjWX8To=; b=IbRNPZS/HbSs TxYJtFKq2EFjEeMRz2lOUC5NqJngxcPxvXQMXCsIh4fTnZFLhqkC+PJ10AZqmO/3iKgzGg7PHiQ3H 1KZfDGkOyUOKZgstfvWzcaDeKR3pA8L8dJAqOUbtSFao4rhN4c2erT2G6Dgar4p/Jp2qkfk1+tt3I zyaLj745FaLzqqZwuxHVU1/B/hzXWfMyop7SYXnYQ2NGIEQfChgBqKdhy2T63LHcocNQRC559dUoZ Sl83ExSqvBgHzFPwi6SRQRnvBHk+QX+4t4ePSWcdMKuRqaHIgOb50zGipj++dPn1o3Viq+LRX8YWt Rouar5kat0ZR26Wz1PQy3Q==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pygQv-00048L-Go; Mon, 15 May 2023 18:12:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Susam Pal on Sat, 13 May 2023 10:05:32 +0100) 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:306132 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. ]]] > I worry that choosing "devil-keys" as the package identifier is going > to make the identifier inconsistent with how Devil is packaged in > MELPA. Compatibility with MELPA is not one of our goals. It is not a reason to choose a suboptimal way of doing things. > Consider the popular package meow. It is a fairly recent > package that was created in 2020 and added in December 2022. It exists > with the name "meow" in NonGNU ELPA. People who do not know about it > of course do not know about it. But people who do know about it do not > get confused about what it does. That's what generally happens with a package whose name gives no guide: people who regularly use the package know what it does, and others have no idea. The reason to choose a name that tells something about the package is to get a better outcome than that. -- 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)