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

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Phil,

Am 15.02.2011 um 16:13 schrieb 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.

Personally I maintain 45 of these and all packages with devel stuff in it
needs to be touched anyway due to the library splitting.


Best regards

  -- Dago