Well, I just blew away the old repository and created a new one as a proper package anyway, so 'fdb.jl' it is.
Honest answer: I had an itch that I wanted to scratch with both Julia and FoundationDB, and nobody had written bindings yet. If somebody else (including my employer) finds this useful, great! On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Patrick O'Leary <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 5:38:05 PM UTC-6, > [email protected]: >> >> The naming follows our existing convention, where all of our bindings >> packages are named fdb-*. How strict are the naming practices in the Julia >> community? >> > > It's a convention; there's no technical restriction. Honest question: are > you trying to get FoundationDB users to Julia, or Julia users to > FoundationDB? > > The compromise solution is to keep the repository named fdb-julia, but > name the main module FoundationDB. But this also breaks convention where > the module shares the name of the package, and might be confusing from the > Julia side. >
