Technically, there is some tricks to allow an `apache-fory` crate to
`use fory::Fory`
1. Change the lib name [1][2].
2. Rename package like: fory = { version = "...", package = "apache-fory" }
[1] https://crates.io/crates/rust-ini
[2]
https://github.com/zonyitoo/rust-ini/blob/af83e00ed0aa2a62262b85ccffcb317787cbc2aa/Cargo.toml#L13-L15
Best,
tison.
Shawn Yang <[email protected]> 于2025年10月28日周二 16:24写道：
>
> I prefer keeping a shorter name.
>
> It feels a bit awkward that a user would have to write
> `use apache_fory::Fory` or `use apache_fory_core::Fory`
> instead of the more natural `use fory::Fory`.
>
> I created the apache-fory crate as a placeholder to avoid potential
> supply chain attacks,
> not necessarily as the main crate name for day‑to‑day usage.
>
> If we adopt `apache-fory`, we would need to ask users to alias it in
> their Cargo.toml so they can still import it as fory in code. This
> does work, but it adds extra steps for the user, and I’d prefer to
> keep things simple.
>
> ----------------
> Best,
> Shawn Yang
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM tison <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > This makes sense where avro is named as apache-avro [1]
> >
> > [1] https://crates.io/crates/apache-avro
> >
> > Although, Apache Arrow/Parquet/OpenDAL/... has a shorter name. Some of
> > them are for keeping the previous usage before being transferred to
> > the ASF; others consider that a shorter name is easier to use and
> > remember.
> >
> > I agree with the former, while IMO as a new crate, we CAN use
> > apache-foo as the crate name since it won't hurt.
> >
> > > there is an ASF requirement
> >
> > If you refer to the incubator guidelines, there are several
> > discussions before IIRC on the [email protected] list, and we
> > concluded that it's a guideline, not a requirement.
> >
> > Best,
> > tison.
> >
> > PJ Fanning <[email protected]> 于2025年10月28日周二 15:24写道：
> > >
> > > Could we consider renaming https://crates.io/crates/fory to
> > > https://crates.io/crates/apache-fory? For future releases.
> > >
> > > With pypi (python), there is an ASF requirement to prefix the name
> > > with 'apache'. I'm not sure if we have an official requirement for
> > > crates. It would still make sense to me, if we followed the
> > > 'apache-fory' naming convention.
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