Re: please advice package names for padre plugins

[Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>]

On Wed, 03 Jun 2009, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> We were wondering how to name the packages. There are two
> possibilities:
> 
> * libpadre-plugin-foo-perl
>   + all the plugins are available via CPAN and are perl modules.
>   + this is what Perl policy mandates
> 
> * padre-plugin-foo
>   + these modules are intented to be used as Padre complements, adding 
>   new features to it

See $ aptitude search '~n-perl$~n-plugin-~n^lib'|wc -l
39

>   + they have limitted (it not void) use outside of Padre

Likewise for most (all?) of the plugins above.

>   + a bit easier finding (apt-get install padre-plugin<tab><tab>)

Or more difficult if you expect it to follow the perl policy. [It also
means that you have to special case padre plugin dependencies when
you're looking for them.]

> What would you use?

libpadre-plugin-foo-perl; there's no reason not to follow the perl
policy, especially when the namespace is being used in CPAN.


Don Armstrong

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