[Pkg-ime-devel] Package name for skim modules?

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 04:56:30PM -0600, Ming Hua wrote:
> Hello fellow SCIM-related package maintainers,
> 
> Now that skim is in unstable, we can start considering to build skim
> modules for different IM engines.  However different IM engine authors
> seem to release their skim modules in different ways:
> 
> The IM engines from James Su, scim-pinyin and scim-tables for example,
> put the skim module directly inside the tarball (and now I just disable
> the skim module when building the package).  The Japanese IM engines
> from sourceforge.jp, however, release a separate tarball using names
> like skim-scim-anthy.
> 
> My opinion is that we really should try to keep the _binary_ package
> name in Debian consistent, so that users can easily guess the name when
> they see one skim module package.  I personally don't like the name
> skim-scim-<module>, I feel skim-<module> would be more intuitive.
> However I don't really have a strong feeling on this - as long as the
> names are consistent, I am fine.

Yes!

(I guess writing to upstream helps.
Japanese following:
　アシエさん、どう思われます。
　確かにあんまり長い名前はわかりにくいですよね。
　もっともDebianにはまだ含まれていないようですが。
　Ｄｅｂｉａｎのパッケージを作られているのでしたっけ？
　勉強ぶそくですみません。
)

> I know almost nothing about KDE and skim, so I would really appreciate
> others' opnions here, especially from William and Ikuya.  I would also
> like to know which IM engines has skim module support now.

Me neither.

> Thoughts?

Osamu