On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 09:19:26AM -0500, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > On Mon, 04 Dec 2017 10:20:13 +0100, you wrote: > > >I would like to hear opinion of other packagers about naming. We have > >`parallel` utility implemented in Rust which is drop-in replacement for GNU > >parallel. I was thinking how to name package and how people would expect it to > >be named. So far options are: > > > >* rust-parallel > >* parallel-rust > >* parallel-rs > > > >I dislike first one because it is not ending up in completion while second and > >third are quite good. > > To me the second and third make it look like the package is part of > the existing parallel package - perhaps rust bindings to parallel - > and not an entirely different program. > > In other words, I could see people install parallel-rust because "it > must be part of the parallel package" based on its naming and not > realize it is an entirely different program doing the same thing. Yes. In other words, the problem started when somebody decided to reimplement a well-known existing package in a different language without changing the name. It seems like the right solution is to ask the rust-parallel folks to rename their project instead of squatting on an existing name. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
