Package naming conventions

Nikodemus Siivola <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cclan.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
This is essentially return to "vn-cclan package naming conventions and
repository organization" thread from May.

What about:

 * Flat namespace. Packages are free to name themselves, but
   moderation is applied so that canonical names aren't frivolously
   grabbed.

   Eg. no "md5", unless it depends-on and provides a stable interface
   to various implementation specific packages (sb-md5, etc), *and*
   CCLAN is willing to make it the canonical CCLAN md5 interface.

   This obviously requires a process of some-sort, preferably
   lightweight.

 * Packages have category tags and a description. An CMUCL-specific
   XML parser might belong to categories Text, XML, Parser, CMUCL.

   Packages that don't have any implementation tags are automatically
   tagged "Portable".

 * Provide a tool to search by categories, etc.

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus
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