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

On Sat, Aug 15, 2026 at 11:13 AM Lin Jian <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>

I think project-store is not that useful and won't aid discovery.  I am
aware of Nix and Guix but I don't think of them as "stores" of anything.
When I do a web search for "project store" I get nothing useful and when I
search for Nix store, I get "Nix Package Search" but it doesn't say "store"
and also an actual retail store "Nix & Nax Pop-Up Shop".