From: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] Uucp 0.9.0
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 16:11:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140630141145.GC23123@frosties> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36D932F6570F44299DFA43CE015B51B9@erratique.ch>
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:37:43AM +0100, Daniel Bünzli wrote:
> Le lundi, 30 juin 2014 à 09:25, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit :
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP
> >
> > Maybe not the best name.
> I think you are a little bit short sighted.
>
> 1) The UUCP protocol suite is now mostly a historical artefact
It's still being used though.
> 2) The library is called uucp and the module Uucp, not UUCP, just don???t apply Unicode???s canonical caseless matching algorithm and you will be able to distinguish...
Package: uucp
Description: Unix to Unix Copy Program
Package: ocaml-uucp
Description: Unix to Unix Copy Program for OCaml (runtime)
So what (Debian) package name should your Uucp then have?
> 3) Uucp as a name perfectly fits among the names of my modular implementation of Unicode (Uucd, Uutf, Uunf and more in the future)
>
> 4) Given the structure of the library and the way it???s going to be used in code, I doubt it will cause any confusion among people reading code that uses the library (recurse to point 1)).
>
> Best,
>
> Daniel
I'm just saying that it will cause confusion, at least among old
timers like me.
MfG
Goswin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-30 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-28 22:08 Daniel Bünzli
2014-06-30 8:25 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2014-06-30 9:37 ` Daniel Bünzli
2014-06-30 14:11 ` Goswin von Brederlow [this message]
2014-06-30 14:34 ` Daniel Bünzli
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