[luatex] convention for lua packages and file names

[Hans Hagen]

Karl Berry wrote:
>     maybe prefixing all with simple would do the trick? simplemplib.sty and 
>     simplemplib.lua? Or a random two-letter prefix, for example lkmplib, 
>     ermplib, ctmplib?
> 
> Neither of these seem like a good convention to me, considering we may
> have dozens/hundreds of these in the future.
> 
> I guess my suggestion remains just "lua" for the prefix for packages
> that run with luatex.
> 
> luainputenc
> luamcallbacks
> luamplib
> luatextra
> 
> Names are hard.

it all depends on how well the variables in texmf.cnf are defined, i.e. 
macro package specific namespaces; *inputenc in probably only used in 
latex but *mplib is more generic; in any case i wouldn't count too much 
on names being unique (for context we have a rather rigourous scheme so 
i don't expect too many clashes there within the context texmf.cnf 
namespace)

btw, .sty is rather unique for latex so that creates a kind of 
namespace; so maybe blabla.sty should then use blabla.stl or so

Hans


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