From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Proposal: Prefix "java-" for Java packages Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 16:24:45 +0200 Message-ID: References: <570FA086.8090004@crazy-compilers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38965) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aqiCe-0006vd-Tc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:25:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aqiCZ-0006Qd-1a for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:25:04 -0400 Received: from venus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de ([141.80.25.30]:50519) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aqiCY-0006QU-H4 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:24:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <570FA086.8090004@crazy-compilers.com> 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: Hartmut Goebel Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hartmut Goebel 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=E2=80=99m in favour of a prefix, although I don=E2=80=99t have any pref= erence as to what it should be named. Note that we also have Java libraries in other modules, such as =E2=80=9C= htsjdk=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9Cngs-java=E2=80=9D in the bioinformatics module. ~~ Ricardo