Bug#748383: ITP: bash8 -- bash script style guide checker

[Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>]

Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> writes:

> On 2014-05-17 Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr> wrote:
> > On Sat May 17 2014 02:54:13 AM EDT, Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> wrote:
>
> >> On 2014-05-16 Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> wrote:
> >>> This program attempts to be an automated style checker for bash
> >>> scripts to fill the same part of code review that pep8 does in
> >>> most OpenStack projects. It started from humble beginnings in the
> >>> DevStack project, and will continue to evolve over time.
>  
> >> how about choosing a different package name? As a user I would
> >> expect to find bash v8 inside a "bash8" package.

Whereas this Bash user would expect a package named ‘bash8’ to install
version 8 of Bash.

Certainly ‘bash8’ carries no reliable connotation of “style checker for
Bash code”.

> > This is a reference to "pep8" in the Python.

In the Python community, “PEP 8” carries strong connotation of “code
style conventions for Python code”. It is *only* because of that
existing connotation that a package named ‘pep8’ implies what the
package installs.

The same is not true for the name ‘bash8’. It is unreasonable to expect
the average Bash user looking at package names to get a reference to
Python conventions.

IMO, the package (source and binary) name should more explicitly carry
an implication of what the package installs. Perhaps
‘bash8-style-checker’ or the like.

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Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>