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Author: Eric Voskuil
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To: Amir Taaki, libbitcoin
Subject: Re: [Libbitcoin] Library Update
OK, I'll apply this to the current set of repos soon.

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On 09/08/2014 01:10 PM, Amir Taaki wrote:
> yes! please use dashes!
>
> On 09/08/2014 07:30 AM, William Swanson wrote:
>> This is great! It's nice to see things moving along.
>>
>> However, I do have one minor complaint - those underscores are really
>> ugly! Nobody uses underscores in library names; they are always
>> dashes. Just look through the package archive of any Linux distro to
>> see what I mean:
>>
>> pacman -Slq | grep "lib" | grep "-" | wc -l
>> 550
>>
>> pacman -Slq | grep "lib" | grep "_" | wc -l
>> 11
>>
>> Can we please be like a normal open-source project and use dashes? I
>> know the underscore thing comes from boost, but they are off in their
>> own little world on this one. We don't need to copy their
>> idiosyncrasy.
>>
>> Other than this one little aesthetic niggle, everything else is looking good!
>>
>> -William