Re: haskell-mode

[Alex Kost]

Federico Beffa (2015-08-03 10:50 +0300) wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Alex Kost <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Federico Beffa (2015-08-01 19:18 +0300) wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to propose to change the name of package 'haskell-mode'
>>> to 'emacs-haskell-mode' as we recently started doing for emacs
>>> packages.
>>>
>>> WDYT?
>>
>> I agree on this, but I don't understand the convention of naming emacs
>> packages.  What about "geiser", "emms", "magit", "paredit"?  I have a
>> feeling they shouldn't be renamed into "emacs-geiser", … but I can't
>> explain why.
>
> The discussion on naming was very quick:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-06/msg00309.html
>
> From my point of view, if we want to be consistent we should use the
> same prefix for all packages providing Emacs libraries/extensions.
> Choices based on feelings are just going to make things confusing.

I was confused because you proposed to rename only 'haskell-mode'.  I
think it is better to rename all emacs packages in once.

-- 
Alex