From: Raghav Gururajan <rg@raghavgururajan.name>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Cc: LibreMiami <packaging-guix@libremiami.org>,
Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: Opposition to new single-letter package name "t"
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 00:39:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ae1c8ee-30fc-6639-5539-621c65e7fc26@raghavgururajan.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7lkj3pt.fsf@netris.org>
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Hi Mark!
> Yesterday, an obscure package called "t" was added to Guix. We should
> reject such short package names in Guix unless there's a very compelling
> reason to keep them.
>
> The problem with single-letter package names is that the probability of
> collisions is far too high. Due to the so-called "birthday paradox", it
> only takes 5 such package names before the probability of a collision
> gets close to 50%. Given this, it's an act of extraordinary hubris to
> claim a single-letter name for one's package.
>
> We've already had at least one collision involving 2-letter names. It
> takes 26 such names before the probability of collision reaches ~50%. A
> few years ago, someone wrote a tool based on Guile for "programmatic
> computer-aided design" and called it "Ao". It turns out that name is
> already taken by a cross platform audio library which is in Guix.
>
> We have precedent for renaming single-letter package names in Guix. We
> have already changed "s" to "s-shell", and "v" to "vlang". Let's choose
> a longer name for "t". Here's the package definition:
Makes complete sense. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. :-)
> Any suggestions for a longer name? Maybe "t-organizer" or
> "t-todo-list-manager"?
How about t-cli?
@Jorge WDYT?
Regards,
RG.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-09 5:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-09 5:27 Opposition to new single-letter package name "t" Mark H Weaver
2021-03-09 5:39 ` Raghav Gururajan [this message]
2021-03-09 5:47 ` jgart
2021-03-09 6:08 ` Raghav Gururajan
2021-03-09 9:35 ` Leo Prikler
2021-03-09 11:38 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-03-09 11:40 ` Julien Lepiller
2021-03-09 13:09 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-03-09 12:40 ` Raghav Gururajan
2021-03-09 18:12 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-03-10 0:16 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-03-09 13:32 ` Search improvements (Was: Opposition to new single-letter package name "t") Taylan Kammer
2021-03-09 15:12 ` zimoun
2021-03-09 16:18 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-03-09 18:37 ` zimoun
2021-03-09 21:39 ` bug#47028: Discourage single-character package names Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-03-09 21:41 ` bug#47028: [PATCH 1/2] doc: Discourage ambiguous " Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-03-09 21:41 ` bug#47028: [PATCH 2/2] lint: Warn about single-character " Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-03-26 8:26 ` zimoun
2021-04-01 8:51 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-04-01 20:41 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-03-09 21:51 ` bug#47028: [PATCH 1/2] doc: Discourage ambiguous " Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-03-10 0:44 ` bug#47028: Discourage single-character " Mark H Weaver
2021-03-10 11:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-10 13:04 ` zimoun
2021-04-01 8:57 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
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