[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r27904 - in nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs: misc/emulators/VisualBoyAdvance top-level

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com> skribis:

> On 24 July 2011 18:11, Sander van der Burg - EWI
> <S.vanderBurg at tudelft.nl> wrote:
>> Convenience, hmm... Personally, I find it confusing if the name of this emulator would be: visual_boy_advance or something like that, while the package on the internet is named: VisualBoyAdvance . Similarly, a lot of Java packages use naming conventions like this.
>
> I agree on this point - I respect the convention but I find it
> unnecessary.

The point of the convention is to honor the principle of least surprise:
users can blindly type ‘nix-env -i mplayer’ or ‘nix-env -Ai
visual_boy_advance’ without thinking any further.

Thanks,
Ludo’.