| Adeodato Simó 2004-10-08, 2:48 am |
| * Jeff Teunissen [Thu, 07 Oct 2004 03:52:37 -0400]:
> What DOES bug me is mindlessly adding
> "gnustep-" to the names of all packages that use it, because most of the
> developers of those packages have dick to do with some mythical GNUstep
> desktop, which itself does not exist.
but note that adding "gnustep-" or "gstep-" as prefix to "these"
packages is/was (from what I've seen so far):
(a) the preferred solution by a high majority of DD, as to what
benefits most to archive namespace clutter.
*and*
(b) what can be regarded as most useful for our users (I, at lest,
think it is, and some other people will as well, I hope).
> In addition to Debian and QuakeForge, I'm involved in a project to create a
> user environment that happens to use the GNUstep libraries. That project is
> called Backbone, and most of what we have done so far is included in Debian
> (the packages preferences.app, terminal.app, and textedit.app).
> We're not GNUstep. One of us is also a member of the GNUstep project, but
> that's not particularly relevant.
but there must be a close relationship to GNUstep when you have:
preferences - GNUstep Preferences application
terminal - Terminal Emulator for GNUstep
textedit.app - Basic text editor for GNUstep
> Why should packages that are part of the Backbone "desktop" (I use quotes
> because putting a desktop on the root menu makes no sense from our
> perspective), or packages that are simply useful (or not) programs that use
> the GNUstep libraries, be advertised as being "GNUstep programs"? That's
> silly.
see above. I'd rather see:
gstep-preferences - GNUstep Preferences application from the Backbone project
gstep-terminal - Terminal Emulator for GNUstep from the Backbone project
gstep-textedit - Basic text editor for GNUstep from the Backbone project
what I fail to see is the reluctance to put gstep- in the name *of*
*the* *Debian* *package* when (a) "GNUstep" is already there in the
short description *and* (b) is what most other members of the project
has been asking for.
[btw, the mail I'm replying to is the *first* (that I can find)
containing the "Backbone" word. if this had been mentioned earlier,
I'm sure it would had made people happier packages with names like
backbone-$whatever or $whatever-backbone that the current $foo.app.]
enlightenment appreciated,
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