Re: [ELPA] New Package: minuet-ai.el

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Milan Glacier <dev@milanglacier.com>
>> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Philip
>>  Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 11:36:41 -0400
>> 
>> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> 
>> > Before I add the package to NonGNU ELPA, I’d like to verify one thing:
>> > The repository is called `minuet-ai.el` but the file is called
>> > `minuet.el`, so the ELPA package name would be `minuet` rather
>> > than `minuet-ai`.  Is that OK with you?  If you prefer the ELPA package
>> > name `minuet-ai`, then you need to rename the `minuet.el`
>> > file accordingly.  Renaming a package once it’s in ELPA is basically
>> > impossible (you can only approximate it by adding the new package and
>> > stop using the old one), so now is the time to choose.
>> 
>> Thank you for the update. I prefer the name `minuet` as well.
>
> A disadvantage of "minuet" is that it conveys no hint on what the
> package does.

I believe your guideline up until now was that the package name together
with the description should give an approximate idea of what a package
is about.  If that is not the case, then there a number of packages in
ELPA that we should have to rename ^^