Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello! > > Vladimír Čunát <[email protected]> skribis: > >> On 24 July 2011 18:11, Sander van der Burg - EWI >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Convenience, hmm... Personally, I find it confusing if the name of this >>> emulator would be: visual_boy_advance or something like that, while the >>> package on the internet is named: VisualBoyAdvance . Similarly, a lot of >>> Java packages use naming conventions like this. >> >> I agree on this point - I respect the convention but I find it >> unnecessary. > > The point of the convention is to honor the principle of least surprise: > users can blindly type ‘nix-env -i mplayer’ or ‘nix-env -Ai > visual_boy_advance’ without thinking any further. I propose the following for 'upstream CamelCase' packages.
VisualBoyAdvance = callPackage ...; visual_boy_advance = pkgs.VisualBoyAdvance; _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
