Re: Wham aligner package name - just wham? wham-align?
Hi Afif, On 30.05.19 17:57, Afif Elghraoui wrote: Hello, On May 30, 2019 5:51:05 AM EDT, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: Hi Steffen, I have no exact idea why alignment tools are all given such short names. We have http://last.cbrc.jp/ as last-align with is. Should I do the same for wham and name the package wham-align? That's what I did for lambda [1] and lambda2 [2] as well. Keeps the namespace clean and users can still search for the name and pick the correct one. I think that, especially if the package provides an executable named `wham`, the package should also be called just that. Someone might not bother searching and just directly try `apt install wham`. Let us hope that there bash-completion or "apt-cache search wham" coming to a rescue. I am not aware of any particular naming conflict. Not yet... ;) If you're taking /usr/bin/wham already, why leave that package name available? The next package in need of /usr/bin/wham should not use the wham package name, either. As we have seen with git, there is no ultimate guarantee that no other evil package comes up and grabs what I have now intentionally left unoccupied. But as we have also seen with git, our distribution is a better place with git being assigned to the git package. I was undecided, somewhere between your position and Sascha's. Have now uploaded as wham-align, let's collect some more opinions about it. Best, Steffen
Re: Wham aligner package name - just wham? wham-align?
Hello, On May 30, 2019 5:51:05 AM EDT, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: > >Hi Steffen, > >> I have no exact idea why alignment tools are all given such short >names. >> We have http://last.cbrc.jp/ as last-align with is. Should I do the >same >> for wham and name the package wham-align? > >That's what I did for lambda [1] and lambda2 [2] as well. Keeps the >namespace clean and users can still search for the name and pick the >correct one. > I think that, especially if the package provides an executable named `wham`, the package should also be called just that. Someone might not bother searching and just directly try `apt install wham`. >> I am not aware of any particular naming conflict. > >Not yet... ;) > If you're taking /usr/bin/wham already, why leave that package name available? regards Afif
Re: Wham aligner package name - just wham? wham-align?
Hi Steffen, > I have no exact idea why alignment tools are all given such short names. > We have http://last.cbrc.jp/ as last-align with is. Should I do the same > for wham and name the package wham-align? That's what I did for lambda [1] and lambda2 [2] as well. Keeps the namespace clean and users can still search for the name and pick the correct one. > I am not aware of any particular naming conflict. Not yet... ;) Cheers Sascha [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/lambda-align [2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/lambda-align2
