[csw-maintainers] Call for vote: -dev vs. -devel

[Philip Brown]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
>> Is there any new input? If no I suggest getting to a vote.
>> (1) CSW*-dev   *_dev
>> (2) CSW*-devel  *_devel
>> While the current OpenCSW standard is (2) the solution (2) is short leaving
>> more space for package names, is consistent with other packaging projects
>> and without loss of meaning.

Reminder for the voting write-up:

- a 2-char difference is trivial compared to the size of the current
namespace. (32 chars?)

- If the goal is "(to converge on standard naming for our development
packages", then there are only *6* packages that have to be renamed
for
 _dev  -> _devel, for us to then be fully standardized in the
"software name" department. This can be done in a relatively short
amount of time.
In contrast, there are 126 _devel packages that would have to be
renamed the other way.

It's all very well to say, "renaming a package isnt difficult", but
someone would have to actually go out and DO 126 (x2) repackagings.
and ideally bring the packages up to date, etc, etc.
I'm guessing this would take far far longer. If _dev was chosen, this
would effectively make our naming *less* consistent, during the
transition period, for possibly a year or more.
Compared to a week or two, to go the other direction.