[Followup on debian-sgml only, Cc: Branden if you reply, because I don't know if he is on debian-sgml.]
On Monday 28 June 1999, at 15 h 36, the keyboard of Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > XT's licence is MIT X11. > > Oh boy, is that ever a terrible name. XT => XML Transformation The name is clear for all XML/XSL users :-) > You know how many people are going to confuse XT with Xt, the X Toolkit > Intrinsics? XT only gets the licence in common with Xt. Otherwise, Debian already has two packages "blast" (unrelated) :-) > It gets worse. You say it's actually called "lib XT"? Don't worry, it is written in Java, so the actual name of the package will be lib-xt-java. > How well is it going to play with the following? > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.a > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so Since the binary package is a set of Java classes (bytecode), I don't think ld will confuse anything :-) > How widely deployed is this stuff already? Is there any hope the upstream > author(s) might consider a name change? The world of SGML is very closed, X11 is not something they know, XT is developed on MS-Windows... > For that matter, Xp is sometimes used to refer to the X Print Extension; > but that is in far less common usage than Xt is. XP = XML Parser :-) The Debian package will be lib-xp-java.
