From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Proposal: Prefix language-name for language library packages Date: Fri, 06 May 2016 08:49:51 +0200 Message-ID: <87poszvfxs.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20160429233632.GA13525@jasmine> <87oa8rwqhc.fsf@elephly.net> <877ffcgap8.fsf@gnu.org> <20160502183334.GB10321@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48152) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ayZau-0002fp-4I for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2016 02:50:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ayZaZ-0007WE-FF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2016 02:50:30 -0400 Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com ([74.201.84.163]:24328) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ayZaZ-0007Pk-7W for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2016 02:50:15 -0400 In-reply-to: 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: =?utf-8?Q?al=C3=ADrio?= eyng Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org alírio eyng writes: > i suggested renaming: > readline, libunistring, htslib, c-ares, json-c, icu4c, ... > to: > c-readline, c-unistring, c-hts, c-ares, c-json, c-icu, ... > > no replies, is that implicit agreement? I strongly disagree with this as it makes things needlessly confusing, in my opinion. It was fine to discuss this for Java as we only had a handful of Java packages, but I don’t think it’s reasonable to do this for C and C++ stuff at all. ~~ Ricardo