Hi Sergey, On Mon Sep 23, 2024 at 2:58 PM CEST, Sergey wrote:
This is a new terminal command, which is in the spirit of "cowsay" or "figlet". The name is deliberately short in order to be funny; renaming it to something longer like "ascii-meow" would go against the spirit of the command. There is no other software named meow, and there are no other such ITPs in the debian repositories. There is another Cargo/rust package named "meow"; however, this is an unmaintained piece of software and will likely not be packaged as a Debian package in the future.
This makes sense, and I do agree that having a longer name wouldn't be desireable. Still, since we have a single global namespace, I personally think it'd be better for your little app to be a bit more widespread before taking the "meow" name. Try posting it on Reddit or Hacker News, and see what others think!
In addition, this software has been released under the package name "meow" in the Nixpkgs repository: https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=unstable&show=meow For consistency, the package should be named the same across different package repositories.
While I do agree that consistency is a nice thing, please be aware that Nixpkgs doesn't have the same high standards as Debian's (or any other typical distro) archive, so you shouldn't generally take them as the example to follow.
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