"Aaron M. Renn" wrote:
> Prasad, Ganesh C ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > P.S. I am however, a bit puzzled that you have package names beginning with
> > "gnu". Shouldn't that be "org.gnu" according to the Sun naming conventions?
>
> See the following for our position on this.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/java/why-gnu-packages.txt
i've read this, and it sounds like personal arrogance to me more than anything
else.
"we don't want to follow the standard because, well, i think it's stupid and
therefore doesn't apply to us."
What if GNU Snowboards (yes, there is a company named GNU) decides to start
writing java code for their website? Bothner seems unwilling to believe that
some other entity might have just as much claim to the word/acronym "GNU" as the
FSF does - but I've just given one example of an entity that does.
I disagree with many, many things sun has done with java, and you may too. it
does (to me) seem a pointlessly small and rather silly battle to fight to say
"we're just going to use gnu instead of org.gnu." The package naming
recommendations sun has made actually make sense. They may not serve all the
purposes Per Bothner sees them as trying to serve, but they keep global names
from conflicting, and add (on the outside) 20 or 30 characters per file. why
bother fighting this?
Chris
