From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Proposal: Prefix "java-" for Java packages Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 18:59:46 +0200 Message-ID: <8737qom8hp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <570FA086.8090004@crazy-compilers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34638) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aqkcS-0002HF-KA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 12:59:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aqkcP-00019V-EY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 12:59:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Thu, 14 Apr 2016 16:24:45 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Hartmut Goebel writes: > >> To avoid confusion and naming clashes with other programming languages, >> it's desirable that the name of a package for a Java package contains >> the word "java". If a project already contains the word java, we drop >> this; for instance, the module ffmpeg-java is packaged under the name >> java-ffmpeg. > > I=E2=80=99m in favour of a prefix, although I don=E2=80=99t have any pref= erence as to > what it should be named. I like this idea too, and =E2=80=9Cjava-=E2=80=9D sounds like the obvious p= refix to me. If there are no objections, you=E2=80=99re welcome to submit a patch, Hartm= ut! Ludo=E2=80=99.