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

[Philip Brown]

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi Phil,

*wave*


> I think moving to something more specific without being explicitly asked
> by someone wanting that project name on SourceForge is... quite a task.
> Changing URLs, switching all repos, all external references as they
> include the project name... everything not done quickly. Without a real
> need I don't want to do that now. Not just because another name is
> nicer. IMHO too many resources from too many people would be bound for
> something without immediate benefit.
>

"doing the right thing", RARELY has "immediate benefit"  :-P

PS: renaming is not the only option that would be morally clean.
The other option that I see, and mentioned, is to offer a "generic gar" package.
Shouldnt be too difficult, relatively speaking?