Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: project-store

Philip Kaludercic <[email protected]> writes:

> Related to this: Are you aware of the
> https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/elpa-packages.eld file, that package-vc
> uses?

I did not know that file before.  At a glance, it is worse than the
archive-contents file for our use case because it filters out :core
packages.  Thanks for the pointer anyway.

> There have been no comments, just one thing I forgot to mention: The
> current name is rather brief and potentially misleading.  Or at least my
> first association with "project-store" isn't Nix' "store" but the
> ability to store some data in a project, or something like that.  The
> ambiguity is resolved by the one-line summary at the top of the file,
> but I just wanted to ask what your opinion would be of renaming the
> package to something more specific like "project-nix-store"?

I have considered alternative names such as project-nix-store, but I
decide to use project-store because:

- project-store is less ambiguous for targeted users, such as Nix or
  Guix users.
- The store model, pioneered by Nix, is becoming more popular.  So
  project-store is becoming less ambiguous.
- The brief description resolving this ambiguity is always available.
- Compared to project-nix-store, project-store indicates that it may
  also work for more stores than just Nix store.  Actually, it works for
  Guix now and I personally think it will work for Guix for a long time.
  (I just don't want to commit myself to maintain that compatibility.)
  In case the compatibility breaks in the future, project-store,
  compared to project-nix-store, also invites other users to fix it.
- project-store is shorter.