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Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: sweep
From: |
Philip Kaludercic |
Subject: |
Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: sweep |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Sep 2022 18:56:15 +0000 |
Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:
>>>> I agree with RMS (<E1odDGZ-0005aw-79@fencepost.gnu.org>) that it might
>>>> be nice to have a more indicative name, or at least something that
>>>> includes "Prolog". Mor eso because "sweep" makes me think of something
>>>> that cleans.
>>>
>>> I've given it some thought, and all in all I would like to keep the name
>>> `sweep` for this project. I do see however why this name may be
>>> unhelpful for Emacs users who are not familiar with SWI-Prolog, or who
>>> are looking for some "cleaning" package... As a possible solution, I'd
>>> be happy to change the name of the Elisp package to `sweeprolog` while
>>> still referring to the project as a whole as `sweep` (e.g. in the
>>> manual). Does that sounds alright?
>>
>> I think that would be nice, and there shouldn't be a need to rename the
>> entire project.
>
> I wonder where this requirement to put all tags in the package name comes
> from?
> While looking at the long list of package names, it's hard to find a package
> whose name immediately hints at what it does. This is a non-problem
> that is solved in all package managers by using tags and full-text search.
> And indeed list-package allows both ways, e.g. when someone is interested
> in Prolog, then it's easy to type '/ k' (package-menu-filter-by-keyword).
> Or try to use '/ d erlang RET' (package-menu-filter-by-description)
> and see that almost no package has it in the package name,
> yet these packages can be easily found:
>
> auto-complete-distel melpa Erlang/distel completion backend for
> auto-complete-mode
> company-distel melpa Erlang/distel completion backend for
> company-mode
> company-erlang melpa company backend based on ivy-erlang-complete
> distel-completion-lib melpa Completion library for Erlang/Distel
> edts melpa Erlang Development Tool Suite
> erlang melpa Erlang major mode
> erlstack-mode melpa Minor mode for analysing Erlang stacktraces
> ivy-erlang-complete melpa Erlang context sensitive completion at point
> using ivy
> lfe-mode melpa Lisp Flavoured Erlang mode
The package list does help, but having a name that can be understood on
its own seems like a good thing. There is no reason to make package
discovery more difficult.
Tough I might be a bit extreme on this topic. E.g. I remember when
starting out with *nix, not wanting to use grep when searching for a
program to filter a file, just because of the name.
- [NonGNU ELPA] New package: sweep, Eshel Yaron, 2022/09/26
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: sweep, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/09/26
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: sweep, Eshel Yaron, 2022/09/27
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: sweep, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/09/27
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: sweep, Eshel Yaron, 2022/09/28
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: sweep, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/09/28
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: sweep, Juri Linkov, 2022/09/28
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: sweep, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/28
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: sweep,
Philip Kaludercic <=
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: sweep, Richard Stallman, 2022/09/29
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: sweep, Stefan Kangas, 2022/09/30
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: sweep, Robert Pluim, 2022/09/30
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: sweep, Richard Stallman, 2022/09/28
- [NonGNU ELPA] New package: sweeprolog, Eshel Yaron, 2022/09/29
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: sweeprolog, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/09/29
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: sweeprolog, Richard Stallman, 2022/09/30
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: sweep, Stefan Monnier, 2022/09/27
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: sweep, Eshel Yaron, 2022/09/28
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: sweep, Richard Stallman, 2022/09/28