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Re: Proposal: Prefix "java-" for Java packages


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: Proposal: Prefix "java-" for Java packages
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 18:59:46 +0200
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Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> Hartmut Goebel <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> To avoid confusion and naming clashes with other programming languages,
>> it's desirable that the name of a package for a Java package contains
>> the word "java". If a project already contains the word java, we drop
>> this; for instance, the module ffmpeg-java is packaged under the name
>> java-ffmpeg.
>
> I’m in favour of a prefix, although I don’t have any preference as to
> what it should be named.

I like this idea too, and “java-” sounds like the obvious prefix to me.

If there are no objections, you’re welcome to submit a patch, Hartmut!

Ludo’.



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