Yes, it’s technically possible using methods like changing lib.name or aliasing in Cargo.toml, but these are workarounds that add extra steps for the user.
As a library, our priority should be to make usage easy and intuitive out of the box. ---------------- Best, Shawn Yang On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM tison <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
