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

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Phil,

Am 05.10.2009 um 21:20 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Dagobert Michelsen  
> <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> Following your argumentation the "generic gar" would be the GAR from
>> linuxbbc
>> without changes as the generic name "GAR" belongs to them. Every  
>> fork could
>> be thought of a takeover of the namespace.
>
>
> Not neccessarily the original one unchanged. It could be an "improved
> gar" in my opinion.
>
> I think that "gar.sourceforge.net", belongs most properly as a place
> where other people interested "in gar", could work on a common base.
> This would include linuxbbc, AND possibly GARNOME people.
>
> Or, if you just "take out all the opencsw bits" from what you have
> already, and make sure that what is left, is internally consistent for
> someone who might take it and build their own GAR-based build setup.
>
> That's all.
>
> I think we would be perfectly justified in keeping the opencsw gar
> addons, as also at gar.sourceforge.net
> Just so long as they are an *optional* addon.

The problem is that the enhancements specific to Solaris can't cleanly
be ripped out. Basically all I did was adding Solaris-specific stuff.
If I take it out you have the original version again.


Best regards

   -- Dago