[opam-devel] opam publish package name

Fabrice Le Fessant Fabrice.Le_fessant at inria.fr
Tue Aug 18 14:09:32 BST 2015


On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil at recoil.org> wrote:
> Sounds fine to me.  It's too late to enforce the "opam-" prefix in the package name unfortunately.

Why is it too late ? If I understand correctly, when you type "opam
xxx", opam tries to install the "xxx" package if it does not match an
existing command ? We could have a transition period where depext
exists as both opam-depext and depext packages, no ?


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