Consider renaming this repository about godotenv HOT 4 CLOSED

Go package names shouldn't have - in them, and it would be ideal if the package name matches the repo name so it's easier to pull in and reference. And if anything the word go should be dropped to make it just dotenv.

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I'm highly in favor of dotenv.

Update

Since I didn't get any feedback on #116, I published the CLI as dotenv on Webi: https://webinstall.dev/dotenv

cc/ @dexterp

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I won't be renaming this package as it's a language specific port of the initial ruby implementation named dotenv (out of both respect to the original and also I used to have a local fork of the ruby library and it clased)

I also lived throug the great Logrus rename and it was such a high effort low reward shitshow on the client side I wouldn't do it to anyone else without an incredibly strong reasons.

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I understand your reasons behind the decision as its a massive breaking change.

For me personally as I mainly use the binary with make it make sense to decouple the name from Go as I think its more conducive for adoption if the name wasn't prefixed with go.·

Consider if certain tools were prefixed with the original language terraform versus goterraform, it doesn't make it any less useful but if I was a pure Python programmer or pure Ruby (I use both), I would scratch my head and think is it just for Go programmers only?

I also have a slightly selfish motivation. I'm writing a templating tool for project initialisation. When I get to it I want to include a dotenv/godotenv binary to a standard template that includes a Makefile. E.G.

# Makefile
DOTENV := godotenv -f $(HOME)/.env,.env

.PHONY: _build

# Run "make build" will run this target prefixed with $DOTENV·
_build:
    gcc ...

# When "^${target}:" is called this catchall will look for an equvalent "^_${target}:" in the Makefile and execute it.
%:
    @egrep -q '^_$@:' Makefile && $(DOTENV) $(MAKE) _$@

My thoughts turn to how to promote adoption and hence my thought process around naming.

Godotenv can definetly still be added to homebrew or an RPM/DEB created using goreleaser. Its the best compiled dotenv tool I've seen.

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