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Re: [ELPA] Add 'logos' package
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Protesilaos Stavrou |
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Re: [ELPA] Add 'logos' package |
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Sat, 12 Mar 2022 11:15:36 +0200 |
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On 2022-03-12, 09:59 +0100, Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> wrote:
> Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com> writes:
>
>> If we will still have to explain what the name means, I think it is
>> easier to just stick with "logos". That way I will not have to make any
>> changes to the package and my website.
>
> FWIW, I find "logos" to be a fine name for this package. Might be just
> me, but it conveys notions of "speech", "reason", "structured thought",
> which IIUC this mode aims at supporting.
>
> The Emacs package ecosystem is no stranger to obscure names that
> nonetheless seem to enjoy wide popularity; I'm thinking e.g. of Daniel
> Mendler's corfu and vertico.
>
> I think keywords and titles are more suited to solving the problem of
> package discovery and visibility. Trying to stuff as much "relevant"
> semantics as possible in the name alone feels counter-productive to me:
> finding one or two words that will successfully map to a meaningful
> subset of a package's feature, in every user's brain, sounds like a very
> hard problem.
>
> IMO this "one-or-two words" budget is better spent on some other purpose
> (brevity, catchiness, punniness, theming…). Again, to me "logos" is
> thematically very appropriate.
Thanks for the feedback! Forgot about the keywords... Will add them
now.
* * *
Note that the package was filed as "logos". It is on the archive
following this commit to elpa.git:
commit be7c3e14d0fc77ecee0aff02e2bc0a9f26a1796a
Author: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Date: Fri Mar 11 08:42:20 2022 -0500
* elpa-packages (logos): New package
elpa-packages | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
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Protesilaos Stavrou
https://protesilaos.com
- [ELPA] Add 'logos' package, Protesilaos Stavrou, 2022/03/11
- Re: [ELPA] Add 'logos' package, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/03/11
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- Re: [ELPA] Add 'logos' package, Protesilaos Stavrou, 2022/03/11
- Re: [ELPA] Add 'logos' package, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/03/11
- Re: [ELPA] Add 'logos' package, Protesilaos Stavrou, 2022/03/11
- Re: [ELPA] Add 'logos' package, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz, 2022/03/11
- Re: [ELPA] Add 'logos' package, Protesilaos Stavrou, 2022/03/11
- Re: [ELPA] Add 'logos' package, Kévin Le Gouguec, 2022/03/12
- Re: [ELPA] Add 'logos' package,
Protesilaos Stavrou <=
Re: [ELPA] Add 'logos' package, Christopher Dimech, 2022/03/12