Re: question regarding my emacs package

[João Távora]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 9:45 AM Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:
>
> ram via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > thanks. did not know this existed. from a quick glance, it looks like
> > there’s no crossover in prefixes? that seems ok
>
> Yes, but it is pretty close and will probably cause confusion.  That
> being said, João is not part of any ELPA so one could argue the name
> hasn't been reserved...

Just some thoughts:

1. There is no name clash, as ram observed

2. I'm not aware of a name reservation/parking procedure.  As far as I can
tell, ram's breadcrumbs.el isn't a part of any ELPA yet.

3. If early manifestation of adding a library is somehow relevant
then I might point you to this ~8-month old thread where I propose we
add breadcrumb.el to Emacs [1].  That's where breadcrumb.el was born and
proposed for Emacs.  I'm still on the fence about whether to propose
it for a :core package or ELPA package.  It takes inspiration on a
similar-named lsp-mode feature and the "breadcrumb" concept is apparently
a common name given to the type of feature breadcrumb.el enables.

4. There is no name clash, I think this bears repeating.

5. Above, I wrote "if early manifestation... is relevant".  I don't think
it should be.  If avoiding confusion to users is a goal to pursue -- and
if this confusion is indeed real (see 4 and 1) -- then I think it's more
important to evaluate the potential consequences of a rename in existing
users of each package.  We don't know that number, but merely as data point,
breadcrumbs.el has 6 github stars and breadcrumb.el has 116.

6. Please let's avoid another "meaning of names/meaning of life" thread.
There is no name clash.

João

[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2022-10/msg01027.html