[csw-maintainers] Change python modules catalog names to have a py_ prefix (instead of just py)?

Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski maciej at opencsw.org
Mon Aug 24 11:35:44 CEST 2009


On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Sebastian Kayser<skayser at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just wrote my first python module build description and noticed that
> most of the few python modules in our catalog follow a catalog name
> naming scheme of
>
>  py<modulename>
>
> With regards to user experience and consistency could we change the
> default/standard to be more like the perl modules which have
> pm_<modulename>? So for python modules this would be:
>
>  py_<modulename>

A question: Suppose the project's name is "pyfoo". (Like:
http://pyyaml.org/) If we had py_projectname, it would end up being
py_pyyaml. It looks a bit stupid. On the other hand, creating py_yaml
makes the catalog name not containing the project name. If I tried
doing pkg-get -a <projectname>, I wouldn't find the package. Which do
you think is better?

Maciej



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