On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 23:48 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > On 22/05/06, Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 19:24 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > > > Actually, perhaps I am overanalysing.:) I'll go away and try it, and > > > offer some suggested clarifications for the wiki. > > > > Indeed, it is entirely possible that my examples are not good examples. > > Please feel free to submit corrections or wording that will make the > > intent simpler. > > > > May I suggest something like the following: > > Packages of emacs add-on components (code that adds additional > functionality to emacs compatible editors) have their own naming > scheme. It is often the case that a component will add functionality > to several different compatible editors, or "flavours", such as GNU > Emacs and XEmacs (and possibly development versions of these editors). > The package name should take into account the upstream name of the > emacs component. > > Where a component adds functionality to more than one emacs flavour, > the package name should be of the form emacs-common-$NAME. In this > case, the main package should contain only files common to all emacs > flavours, and the code specific to each flavour should be placed in a > subpackage reflecting the flavour $FLAVOUR-$NAME eg. xemacs-$NAME, > emacs-$NAME (the latter being the package specific to GNU Emacs). An > example of this scheme can be found in the package emacs-common-muse. > > Where a component is designed to add functionality to only a single > flavour of emacs, the main package name should reflect this by being > called $FLAVOUR-$NAME. An example of this situation can be found in > the package emacs-auctex, which is built only for the GNU Emacs > flavour. Seems good to me, I'm going to use it (with some minor wording changes to avoid American English vs Queens English flamewars). Thanks, ~spot -- Tom "spot" Callaway: Red Hat Senior Sales Engineer || GPG ID: 93054260 Fedora Extras Steering Committee Member (RPM Standards and Practices) Aurora Linux Project Leader: http://auroralinux.org Lemurs, llamas, and sparcs, oh my! -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
