[csw-maintainers] questions about GAR, history, and naming

[Philip Brown]

SO.. I'm reading the front page blurb about GAR on 

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/


A few questions and concerns come up, which I think would be best clarified
and sorted out on the list here.

  "GAR is the build and packaging system used by OpenCSW. GAR is based on
   the GARNOME project"

Err.. pardon? I thought it was based on "the linux BBC project"'s GAR build
system.

to remind people what THAT is/was all about: 
  http://www.lnx-bbc.com/garticle.html

I believe that GARNOME also forked off of that or something.

and speaking of which.. I think that to do things cleanly, we need to 
EITHER have a "core, generic GAR" build system, and layer 
  opencsw stuff on top of that
  (I think this is the cleanest thing to do)
OR rename/rebrand "our" build system, as "cswgar", or "garcsw" or
  something.

If we dont provide a generic "gar", then I think we need to migrate from
gar.sourceforge.net, to something more specific. Otherwise, I think we do
not deserve that namespace, and it should be ceeded to the ORIGINAL gar
people at lnx-bbc.com