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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: Milan Glacier <dev@milanglacier.com>,  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
>   stefankangas@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 22:36:25 +0000
> 
> 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 ^^

I didn't suggest to rename any packages on ELPA; that war was lost
long ago.  I reacted to someone else's suggestion to rename minuet-ai
to just minuet: the former at least hints that this has something to
do with AI, whereas the latter doesn't.  And since the subject of
renaming is already on the table, I thought my input will be useful to
make the decision.  Apologies if I misunderstood.