Bug#843021: RFP: yarn -- a fast, reliable, and secure package manager for Node.js

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Lars Wirzenius writes ("Re: Bug#843021: RFP: yarn -- a fast, reliable, and secure package manager for Node.js"):
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 02:02:31PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > I searched github for `yarn'.
> 
> You don't find my software on github. I do not want to rely on
> non-free services like github.

Indeed.  Mine neither.  But it's a way of finding out what already
might exist when choosing a name.

Of course another answer would be that someone choosing a command name
ought to search something like this:

  https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=%2Fyarn&mode=path&suite=unstable&arch=any

which readily shows your yarn, of course.

> > There are lots of hits for other
> > programs, including: [...]
> 
> How many of those were public in mid-2013?

I have no idea.

> > Obviously "yarn" is a really bad name.  Someone who picks a name like
> > that must obviously expect that they can't necessarily have that name
> > in every namespace.
> 
> When I chose the name in 2013, I didn't other software that was called
> yarn.

Fair enough.

Ian.

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