Re: Shall we state on naming (again)?

[Jérôme Marant <jerome.marant@free.fr>]

En réponse à Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>:

> On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 02:59:54PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote:
> >   - Maxence proposed to rename OCaml-targeted applications
> 
> We need to know what you mean with "applications" in the statemente
> above.
> If you mean standalone applications not related to ocaml development
> I'm
> in favour of totally remove the name ocaml from the package name, an
> application is usefull for what he do, not for the language in which
> it
> is implemented.

  Agreed.

> If you mean tools related to ocaml developing ocaml-<something> is a
> worth mentioning name.

  I totally agree. With 'OCaml-targeted applications', I meant
  ocaml development tools.

> 
> >   - should we rename Camlp4 extensions to ocaml-<package>
> >   as proposed by Stefano and Remi, or camlp4-<package>, or
> >   anything else?
> 
> If we plan to add many syntax extensions to ocaml (which is reasonable
> due to camlp4 usefulness), we can consider to adopt a naming schema
> ....
> mumble mumble .... ocaml-syn-<something>? syn-ocaml-<something>? boh
> ...

  I have no real idea. I'll adopt the ocaml-<package> scheme for
  this until we state about this.

  Cheers,

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