Sorry I failed to follow to this thread earlier, rolled off my radar. :/ (I need to find a better way of tracking followups to my posts...)
Tom "spot" Callaway さんは書きました:
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 10:29 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
On 22/05/07, Jens Petersen petersen@redhat.com wrote:
I still think the emacs-common prefix is confusing with the emacs-common package [...]
Jens, you're of course right. The fact that emacs-common is a subpackage of emacs didn't come up during the discussions a year ago. I did try for "emacsen" but people didn't like that so much, am not sure why.
Well I don't like "emacsen" either...
Anyway, I'm happy to revisit the package naming guidelines for (X)Emacs add-ons, Jens seems inclined to do so. Does anyone else have strong feelings either way?
My suggestion is just to go with emacs-* rather than emacs-common-*. It is a pretty small change and already quite a number of older elisp packages follow it.
I'm not convinced that emacs-common-foo is broken as a naming scheme.
IMHO it is too verbose and it makes it hard to read and find emacs packages.
Then again, I'm not an emacs user.
I think it would be better if emacs/xemacs users had more say in setting the naming convention.
Jens