[racket] Misleading label when registering with pkg.racket-lang.org

> "Typed Racket" is not valid because it contains a space.

Let me rephrase the question.

A package has a two names. One is used informally among people to refer to
a package. This could be Typed-Racket. The other is the name used in the
package system this could be typed-racket.

Is it clear from the context which one is meant?

/Jens Axel




2013/4/7 Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>

> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Jens Axel Søgaard <jensaxel at soegaard.net>
> wrote:
> > Let's say I want to submit Typed Racket as a package.
> > Is the package name "Typed Racket" or typed-racket ?
>
> "Typed Racket" is not valid because it contains a space.
>
> > I just got a 503 from pkg.racket-lang.org, so I check whether
> > it is clear from the context what is meant.
>
> I just fixed it
>
> >   /Jens Axel
> >
> >
> >
> > 2013/4/6 Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>
> >>
> >> I just tried clicking thru this too and I think just putting "Package
> >> Name" near the top where it says "Name" is a suitable fix.
> >>
> >> Robby
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> After having clicked on a link that says "Contribute a Package", I
> >>> don't think it is unreasonable to think that a user would know they
> >>> had to give the information about the package, including fundamental
> >>> information like its name.
> >>>
> >>> If you still disagree, I think it would be easy to submit a patch:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://github.com/plt/racket/blob/master/collects/meta/pkg-index/official/main.rkt#L606
> >>>
> >>> If you'd like, I can make the patch myself, but I think it may be more
> >>> productive to figure out the deeper reason why it is hard to tell that
> >>> "Contribute a Package" goes to a package information form and fix
> >>> that, rather than just changing a text string.
> >>>
> >>> Jay
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones <tonyg at ccs.neu.edu>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> > I just tried to register a package with pkg.racket-lang.org. First I
> >>> > registered an account, by typing in an email address and fresh
> >>> > password.
> >>> >
> >>> > The next step was a webpage prompting me for "Name" and some other
> >>> > fields. I didn't realise it was asking me for the *package* name, and
> >>> > thought it was looking for *my* name! Fortunately, it rejected the
> >>> > package name "Tony Garnock-Jones" because it had a hyphen in it.
> >>> >
> >>> > It took me until I was ready to post an angry message pointing at
> >>> >
> >>> >
> http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
> >>> > to finally realise it wanted me to type the *package* name.
> >>> >
> >>> > I think the form should have the field label "Name" replaced with
> >>> > "Package Name", to make life easier for klutzes like myself :-)
> >>> >
> >>> > Regards,
> >>> >   Tony
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
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> >>>
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> >
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> > --
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> > Jens Axel Søgaard
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay
>
> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
>



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