SF.net SVN: gar:[26210] csw/mgar/pkg/gs_ftp/trunk/Makefile

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Tue May 16 15:48:42 CEST 2017


Hi Riccardo,

Am 16.05.2017 um 15:40 schrieb Riccardo Mottola <rmottola at opencsw.org>:
> let me add to this topic, since I have seen that also "gnome" apps, for example, have different prefixes.
> 
> One think is of course the original application name, it may already contain the library/framework/desktop name.

Let’s just keep the names as they are now, I thought this was a new package.


Best regards

  — Dago

> 
> Riccardo Mottola via devel wrote:
>> Dagobert Michelsen via devel wrote:
>>> please use CSWgnustep-ftp as „gs“ usually means Ghostscript.
>>> Please also add
>>>  OBSOLETED_BY_CSWgnustep-ftp += CSWgs-ftp
>> 
>> Do you insist on that? it has been called that way since 2 years.
>> Actually the program is just called "FTP" and I deemed the name too
>> generic.
>> 
>> I used the gs prefix for other GNUstep applications too: terminal,
>> price, & zipper.
>> 
>> What policy shoud we use? Keep the original name and use a prefix only
>> when necessary? Always use it?
>> 
>> gs- is much shorter and handier than gnustep- :)
>> The "core" gnustep packages have gnustep_ so we could stick to that too.
>> In that case it is however directly in the upstream package name,
>> gnustep-base/gnustep-gui/gnustep-back
> 
> at the moment we do have
> 
> Core framework:
> CSWgnustep-back
> CSWgnustep-base
> CSWgnustep-gui
> CSWgnustep-make
> 
> No prefix at all:
> CSWgorm (graphical designer: dev tool)
> CSWprojectcenter (IDE: dev tool)
> CSWperformance (framework)
> 
> Assorted with the "gs" prefix
> CSWgs-zipper
> CSWgs-terminal
> CSWgs-price
> CSWgs-ftp
> 
> 
> All the issue started because I deemed "ftp" and "terminal" too generic as names.
> 
> Do we want to rename "everything" to CSWgnustep- ? just the ambiguous one? keep CSWgs- instead but apply it to the ones which have no prefix?
> 
> 
> Waiting for you,
> Riccardo
> 

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