ng0 transcribed 2.5K bytes: > Mark H Weaver transcribed 0.9K bytes: > > Hi Leo, > > > > leo@famulari.name (Leo Famulari) writes: > > > > > lfam pushed a commit to branch master > > > in repository guix. > > > > > > commit 478ebb31a96955fc03fcea55a4432976ddb49319 > > > Author: Leo Famulari > > > Date: Wed Oct 11 20:22:32 2017 -0400 > > > > > > gnu: Add go-github-com-templexxx-reedsolomon. > > > > On this, and a great many other packages, you've included "github-com-" > > in the package names. I think this is a very bad idea. For one thing, > > we should not advertise, promote, or enhance the lock-in of GitHub, and > > this policy does all three. Sometimes a maintainer decides to change > > their hosting arrangements. When they do so, we should simply be able > > to update some URLs in one package definition. We should not have to do > > a global find/replace on the package name and alert our users to update > > their profiles and OS definitions. That contributes to lock-in. > > > > What do you think? > > > > Mark > > I think Leo just followed the upstream conventions here, where it is > named after the path the go module ends in. > If we decide not to name the package like this, we might break expectations. > So when we break expectations, what are the alternative naming schemes > we could pick for go packages that'll still make sense to people > using Go? One idea could be: go-templexxx-reedsolomon so just remove the hoster from the package name. I'm not using Go, so I don't know if this will make any sense or cause potential namespace issues. -- ng0 GnuPG: A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588 GnuPG: https://dist.ng0.infotropique.org/dist/keys/ https://www.infotropique.org https://ng0.infotropique.org