syck-python vs. python-syck?

Oliver Falk oliver at linux-kernel.at
Fri Mar 10 10:15:38 UTC 2006


On 03/10/2006 10:43 AM, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 04:07 -0500, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
>>> We have syck, perl-YAML-Parser-Syck, so a syck-python package should 
>>> not exist, all other python modules do have correct naming, eg. 
>>> python-sqlite, python-twisted, and so on...
>>>
>>> So syck-python should be moved to python-syck!!!
>>>
>>> Regarding libxml2-python; The base package is libxml2. BUT, we shoudl 
>>> think about renaming this to python-libxml2 and do a Provides: 
>>> libxml2-python.
>>>
>>> my 2 cent,
>>>  -of
>>>
>>> PS: Maybe also with MySQL-python, gstreamer08-python, gstreamer-python 
>>> and libopensync-plugin-python.
>> While we're at it, let's rename all mono packages to mono-<pkg>, all 
>> java packages to java-<pkg>, and all C packages to c-<pkg>. That way the 
>> user can focus on what's really important to a user (the programming 
>> language of the software) as opposed to irrelevant things like its brand 
>> name that the user can identify and recognize :)
> 
> Isn't the rule of thumb for this that applications use their own names
> regardless of language, but supporting libraries/modules use their own
> namespace?
[ ... ]

MAYBE I said... OK. For gstreamer and libopensync it might not be the 
best idea... But for MySQL-python, this would be a good idea - I think...

-of




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