From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
To: Dan Frumin <dfrumin@cs.ru.nl>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Libre games that might be worth packaging :)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 11:17:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mulszdt9.fsf@bababa.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b75c4dca-4670-41db-d996-0183246ab19e@cs.ru.nl>
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Dan Frumin <dfrumin@cs.ru.nl> writes:
>> Shouldn't we name this "dungeon-crawl-stone-soup"?
>>
>
> Possibly, but the official packages from crawl.develz.org are called `crawl' and `crawl-tiles'.
Maybe packagers use abbreviated names, often with underscores or simply
no word separator.
I think we should not follow what other packagers do, but rather what
the _users_ expect. The full program name is much more certain to be
known to the wider audience rather than some abbreviation that is only
known to the set of developers / restricted community members.
Guix follows Lisp's "hyphen-separated words" convention. I like it a
lot and I believe it to be vastly superior since it give packages
meaningful names.
"crawl" matches both "crawl" and "dungeon-crawl-stone-soup". "dungeon
crawl stone soup" does not match "crawl".
At the end of the day, no need to restrict our wording if nothing forces
us to ;)
> Maybe it is good to add the abbreviation "DCSS" somewhere in the description tho?
If DCSS is popular, why not.
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Pierre Neidhardt
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-18 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-17 16:51 Libre games that might be worth packaging :) swedebugia
2019-03-17 18:36 ` swedebugia
2019-03-17 18:42 ` Dan Frumin
2019-03-17 18:49 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-03-18 7:25 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-18 9:14 ` Dan Frumin
2019-03-18 10:17 ` Pierre Neidhardt [this message]
2019-03-18 12:39 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-03-18 13:55 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-03-18 15:32 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-19 11:06 ` swedebugia
2019-03-19 11:21 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-26 13:20 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-29 11:49 ` swedebugia
2019-03-17 18:53 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-03-18 15:00 ` Kei Kebreau
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