Re: Choosing a package name

> Stefan Karrmann:

> 1. Use /package/host/localhost.
> 2. Don't care. Fill up the namespace as the names come. Then in 10 years
>    no simple names will remain...
> 3. Use naming like `registration_year:name', e.g.
>    `2002:admin/daemontools'.

maybe you should create a separate name-space manager to accomodate every
conceivable strategy.  it should enable the user to create and modify name
spaces, including, if possible, several versions of the same package. 
freebsd, for example, installs several coexisting versions of tcl/tk,
because they are incompatible.  so users must call them up by their
respective names, but there are other benefits.

maybe the name spaces should be of the OO type, so that you can send its
objects messages to identify themselves.

clemens