Chris Toshok ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I disagree with many, many things sun has done with java, and you may too. it
> does (to me) seem a pointlessly small and rather silly battle to fight to say
> "we're just going to use gnu instead of org.gnu." The package naming
> recommendations sun has made actually make sense. They may not serve all the
> purposes Per Bothner sees them as trying to serve, but they keep global names
> from conflicting, and add (on the outside) 20 or 30 characters per file. why
> bother fighting this?
I'm opposed to org.gnu for the same reason that I hate email addresses
of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] It purports to be some type of
globally unique identifier when in fact it is not. In the meantime,
it requires names that are extremely verbose. At my last company
we had two Gregory R. Barrett's. One of them ended up a gregory.r.barrett
and the other at greg.r.barrett. It's like making your hash table
really, really big in the hopes you won't have a collision.
It's a nitpick I know, and if the GNU project had used org.gnu all along,
I'd probably have gone along with it with no complaint. But the
regular top level package "gnu" was chosen, and I'm happy enough with the
way things are.
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Aaron M. Renn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/
