[bug#50420] [PATCH 0/2] Add sendgmail.

[Leo Famulari]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 05:59:44AM -0400, Philip McGrath wrote:
> That would make sense to me: I'm not sure what the general rule is for
> breaking out of the language-specific naming conventions, and I'm not a Go
> programmer, but “go-github-com-google-gmail-oauth2-tools-go-sendgmail”
> seemed especially egregiously long.

In general, end-user applications (like a CLI program) can use a simple
name like 'sendgmail', which is what users expect.

Libraries, on the other hand, should use the long name. For Go, this
should match the "import path" of the program, with slashes changed to
hyphens, plus a "go-" prefix.

Internally to Go software, the "import path" is the true name of the
program:

https://golang.org/doc/gopath_code#ImportPaths

For example, there could be multiple Go libraries named 'sendgmail', but
Go software distinguishes them by including their network location in
the name.

We could invent another naming system, but Go naming is already so
complicated that I think it's worth trying to match the internal "import
path" names.