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Seems to be broken, the list of reasons for a bad package name are blank: http://i.imgur.com/0U06IGS.png

Do you have more details? Is JS enabled? Which browser?

Common-or-garden Firefox Beta for Android for me, same effect.

Sorry! It should be okay now.

Oops, sorry. It was `innerText` on firefox that was breaking.

"Don't put hyphens, that's ugly"

This is highly subjective, and quite frankly makes me think the whole thing is pointless

Well, in the actual package name, you can't include hyphens. I presume they're talking, then, about the directory name, which would have to differ from the actual package name, and that's a no-no. Their reasoning may be wrong, but the rule is still correct.

Do you mean a directory name cannot contain a hyphen (-)? Or perhaps you did mean a slash (/)? I have never heard nor encountered about a package manager or filesystem that does not allow the use of hyphens.

The Go package name, which is potentially different than the manner if the directory it resides in. Go package names badly include hyphens (only Unicode letters)

Arg, stupid phone. Should say:

The Go package name can be different than the name of the directory in which the package resides (although this is strongly discouraged). The directory may certainly contain hyphens, but the package name - the thing you see in the Go

    package foo

statement - cannot contain hyphens... that's the actual package name, which can only contain unicode alpha-numerics.

Package for what? It doesn't specify a particular type of package its "rules" are meant for.

Right so its only by going to the Github repo and looking through the readme that I discovered

> tells if your idea for a Go package name is shit

and yet nowhere else does it mention about being Go specific.

Being Go specific is implicit. If it was about something else than Go, we should have made _that_ explicit.

Go is absolute and infinitesimal.

If you believe Go is infinitesimal, why is it also implicitly Go-specific?

"aaaaaaaa is not a shit pkg name"

Ok, let's use that then!

Git and foo works too! :)

What's the algorithm? If I use "abc" or "aaa" it prints "is not a shit pkg name".

The algorithm is very simple and not meant to be exhaustive or correct. You can see how the filters for validation are done:

https://github.com/aybabtme/pkgname/blob/master/filters.go

Overall, this project is meant as joke/smoke test, not a canonical reference. It was pretty fun to build =)

I like the concept. It is subjective so it needs tweaking.

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