On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 11:37:32PM +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 04:47:00PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > > > * Package name : ftphs > > This isn't really a Debian specific comment, so we might want to move to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or somewhere if we want to discuss it further. > > I think it would be nice to avoid putting "hs", "haskell" etc in the > cabal package name of Haskell libraries, because it's redundant. There > is precedent for not doing so in the libraries that are and were > distributed with GHC etc.
That is true. On the other hand, I don't know if an overriding policy is necessary. For instance, in Python, there are libraries/programs like: * pyblosxom blogging app * pydf colorized df clone * pyftpd * pygopherd (my fault) * biopython * cherrypy * pydns * empy * numpy * and tons of interfaces like pygresql, pyinotify, pynjb, pyogg, pyopenssl, pyorbit, pyscript, pysnmp4, pysqlite2, pyvorbis, etc. Let's say that I write libraries for multiple languages, which I have done. Do I name them the same everywhere? I think there is value, when a library is concerned, to have its name be descriptive. When it's an enduser program, I think that value is less important. Like with pydf -- who cares what language it was written in? (pygopherd is somewhat of a grey area because it can be configured using python) > I'm also nervous about names like "ftp" being taken on a first-come > first-served basis, but I think that's something the community will have > to address if it turns out to be a problem. (I'm not objecting in this That seems to work out OK. In fact, hsemail was taken so I won't be naming anything that way. hsftp was also taken by something non-Haskell. > particular case; indeed, your API documentation link leads to an empty > directory so I have no idea what's in it and so I have no opinion at all > :-) ). It's MissingH.Network.FTP from here: http://gopher.quux.org:70/devel/missingh/html/index.html that site will be down once the next MissingH gets out. There isn't any API doc on my web site yet because the code isn't done yet. It should be within 24 hours. -- John _______________________________________________ debian-haskell mailing list [email protected] http://urchin.earth.li/mailman/listinfo/debian-haskell
