On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Andrei Thorp<garoth@gmail.com> wrote:
Excerpts from Laurie Clark-Michalek's message of Tue Jun 23 16:45:04 -0400 2009:
Excerpts from Vitaliy Berdinskikh's message of Tue Jun 23 16:06:28 -0400 2009:
В Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:39:55 +0200 Andrea Scarpino <andrea@archlinux.org> пишет:
The original name is gstreamer-java But we have the policies, so if you want to package a project respect ours policies.
On 23/06/2009, Vitaliy Berdinskikh <skipper13@root.ua> wrote: please adopt java-gstreamer; after this, someone will delete gstreamer-java
" * If a Java library has a generic name, the package name should be prepended with the title java- to help distinguish it from other libraries. This is not necessary with uniquely named packages (like JUnit), end-user programs (like Eclipse), or libraries that can be uniquely described with another prefix (like jakarta-commons-collections or apache-ant).
I'd say that gstreamer-java is a generically named library, so it should probably be java-gstreamer.
Thanks for clearing it up. Why not just rename it java-gstreamer-java? That way we can respect
2009/6/23 Andrei Thorp <garoth@gmail.com>: the archlinux policies, and also keep the origal name for anyone trying to find it on the aur.
I chuckled. I assume this isn't a serious suggestion. Though it would solve it, it's not really a "solution".
I'm think I agree with Andrea still.
Just a note - I feel that it's always preferable to stick with upstream names. If it becomes too generic, then we can tack on some nomenclature. Case in point: feedparser. WTF is that? Oh it's python-feedparser! These bindings are named well enough for my tastes in the original upstream project.