[go-nuts] Re: github repo names with "go-" prefix?

2017-12-24 Thread Tim Peoples
...and yet, a vast majority of the instances where I see a go package hosted as "github.com/user/go-foobar", they are not using gopkg.in. I'm w/ Dave on this one; except in very rare instances, this shouldn't be done (and even then, you should try find a way to avoid it). Also, in many ways,

[go-nuts] Re: github repo names with "go-" prefix?

2017-12-23 Thread Manlio Perillo
Il giorno sabato 23 dicembre 2017 19:18:14 UTC+1, Tim Peoples ha scritto: > > > 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 >

[go-nuts] Re: github repo names with "go-" prefix?

2017-12-23 Thread Tim Peoples
On Saturday, December 23, 2017 at 11:06:35 AM UTC-8, Dave Cheney wrote: > > On Sunday, 24 December 2017 05:18:14 UTC+11, Tim Peoples wrote: > > I've noticed a somewhat common practice of people naming their github > repositories with a "go-" prefix (and then, of course, subsequently >

[go-nuts] Re: github repo names with "go-" prefix?

2017-12-23 Thread Dave Cheney
On Sunday, 24 December 2017 05:18:14 UTC+11, Tim Peoples 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

[go-nuts] Re: github repo names with "go-" prefix?

2017-12-23 Thread Tim Peoples
[*yes, I'm responding to myself (I tend to do that sometimes)*] Hmm I suspect part of it may be coming from this PackagePublishing wiki page , where it's mentioned almost as a foregone conclusion yet may often be