Hi Xiyue,

Obinata-san, please feel free to change it back to "pangu-spacing" if
> you prefer, and sorry for the trouble.

I don't have any strong opinion to add emacs- prefix or not. Anyway, I
switched back to pangu-spacing. Please check.

Best regards,

2025年12月11日(木) 10:43 Xiyue Deng <[email protected]>:

> Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Wed 10 Dec 2025 at 07:29am -08, Xiyue Deng wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Sean,
> >>
> >> Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes:
> >>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> On Tue 09 Dec 2025 at 09:56pm -08, Xiyue Deng wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I saw that you added me as a developer to your repo.  Thanks!  I have
> a
> >>>> few generic comments before giving a detailed review:
> >>>>
> >>>> * I would suggest making the source package name
> `emacs-pangu-spacing'.
> >>>>   The Emacsen wiki[1] suggests only adding "emacs-" prefix or "-el"
> suffix if
> >>>>   the name is too generic, though I do think it would be beneficial to
> >>>>   make it clear that this is Emacs related.
> >>>
> >>> I think it should be just pangu-spacing unless this terminology "pangu"
> >>> is something people generally use outside of an Emacs context (IHNI).
> >>>
> >>
> >> Pangu is a god in Chinese mythology (see more in [1]) and I believe he
> >> is well known in Chinese speaking (or maybe even other Asian) countries.
> >> I think adding the "emacs-" prefix would make it more explicit that this
> >> package is emacs related, or people will need to jump through hoops to
> >> find its relation.
> >
> > Source package names should be more about respecting upstream's choices,
> > I think.  Binary package names make it easy to find out.
>
> I found it helps in some cases if source package names gives good hints
> on its connection to Emacs, but as you said the binary package will be
> prefixed with "elpa-" anyway it may be good enough for searching
> purpose.  Though I would still like to see the source package prefixed
> with "emacs-", I won't insist on it.
>
> Obinata-san, please feel free to change it back to "pangu-spacing" if
> you prefer, and sorry for the trouble.
>
> >
> > --
> > Sean Whitton
>
> --
> Regards,
> Xiyue Deng
>


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