npm i cloudevents

We should make it really as simple as possible to use this module.

Expected

npm i cloudevents

Actual

npm install cloudevents-sdk

Not sure who’s publishing the npm module, happy to give cloudevents for publishing source in this repo.

Python, Ruby, C# all don’t use cloudevents-sdk, just cloudevents.

[lholmquist]

I would argue that it would create more confusion if the name changed now.

I would suggest that you, @grant , deprecate that module and point your readme to this repo.

[grant]

You have not provided any compelling reason to change the name of this module beyond an aesthetic desire to reduce typing by four characters.

But this module is not an SDK. This is not a “software development kit”. The set of 7 languages is the SDK, the kit. This library is a small library for handling CloudEvents, part of the SDK. The CloudEvents SDK is meant to refer to a collection of multiple libraries in different languages, not an individual language library.

Moreover, this name with “-sdk” is not idiomatic for JavaScript and Node. It would be more acceptable for other languages like Java.

The only real example of a npm package using “-sdk” was AWS’ SDK, which is not comparable to this library. That package is really a set of tools for multiple APIs and is aptly named.

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Here are more data points:

Look at: https://www.npmjs.com/

Search SDK in npm: https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=-sdk

Read about SDK on Wikipedia referencing multiple tools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit

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This whole repo used Java-like constructs like builder patters. Using -sdk is one of the historical parts that I would like to fix now. It’s doable like moving to TypeScript. I’d like strong counterarguments for saying no, it’s not idiomatic or better due to the above arguments.