>> I think it's best if the packages keep their names when they get
>> integrated, unless the name poses a real problem
> I do think that users should be able to start an irc session with M-x
> irc. We can do that without renaming everything.
We can provide an `irc' alias without any problem, indeed. It doesn't have
much to do with renaming or not.
> I think it depends a lot on exactly what the name is, and the
> package's history.
Sure. Since IIUC there are other IRC clients for Emacs out there, it makes
sense to be careful. Maybe none of them already use the name `irc', but you
never know. Furthermore, even without a long history, it
introduces confusion.
> But for packages with no significant independent history, which
> perform a fairly generic function in "the obvious way", calling every
> function "joes-great-foo-mode-asdf" instead of just "foo-asdf" is
> simply noise.
We're talking "rcirc" vs "irc". We're not talking some insanely long names.
Stefan
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