On Saturday, December 23, 2017 at 11:36:45 AM UTC-8, Jakob Borg wrote: > > On 23 Dec 2017, at 19:18, Tim Peoples <t...@timpeoples.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > I've noticed a somewhat common practice of people naming their github > repositories with a "go-" prefix (and then, of course, subsequently > dropping the prefix in the actual package name) -- yet a similar naming > scheme doesn't seem to be commonplace among many other languages. > > I think this is acceptable when you’re providing a library foo implemented > in several languages and naturally get go-foo, python-foo, ruby-foo etc > repositories. It’s still annoying but a natural effect of using the GitHub > etc namespace for package naming and not having a Go specific package > namespace. > > In all other cases it’s discouraged. > > //jb >
Sadly, that is rarely the case. In fact, I often find authors with dozens of repos covering a number of languages -- yet, only their "go" repos are named as such (repos with no corresponding implementation in another language, mind you). Oh well... :/ t. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
