Re: Proposal: Prefix "java-" for Java packages

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hartmut Goebel <address@hidden> writes:

> To avoid confusion and naming clashes with other programming languages,
> it's desirable that the name of a package for a Java package contains
> the word "java". If a project already contains the word java, we drop
> this; for instance, the module ffmpeg-java is packaged under the name
> java-ffmpeg.

I’m in favour of a prefix, although I don’t have any preference as to
what it should be named.

Note that we also have Java libraries in other modules, such as “htsjdk”
or “ngs-java” in the bioinformatics module.

~~ Ricardo