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From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal: Prefix "java-" for Java packages
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 16:24:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <idja8kw46aa.fsf@bimsb-sys02.mdc-berlin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <570FA086.8090004@crazy-compilers.com>


Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> 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’m in favour of a prefix, although I don’t have any preference as to
what it should be named.

Note that we also have Java libraries in other modules, such as “htsjdk”
or “ngs-java” in the bioinformatics module.

~~ Ricardo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-14 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-14 13:52 Proposal: Prefix "java-" for Java packages Hartmut Goebel
2016-04-14 14:24 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2016-04-14 16:59   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-04-14 17:52     ` Hartmut Goebel

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