Re: Package naming question

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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
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