I think that all sounds good, assuming the 'old' names use compat mcus and
the 'new' names use the new mcus

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 8:07 AM Andrzej Kaczmarek <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Jacob,
>
> I would also like to keep old names at least for upcoming release, but
> my main concern here is that at the moment the only way to do this is
> to have duplicated code which I don't really like. We had this already
> for BLE sample apps and it created a lot of confusion.
> However, I am trying to extend newt so it will be possible to create
> dummy package which only links to other package (simple dependency
> won't work here) and thus we can keep old names linked to new names.
> This could be useful in general so we can move packages and let newt
> emit a clear warning that package name has changed and settings should
> be updated. I hope I can push some working PR soon for testing...
>
> Best,
> Andrzej
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 5:22 PM Jacob Rosenthal <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Sounds good to me. Though Id say it might make sense to keep old names
> > around with the compat mcu for a release or something? With some
> > deprecation message and no updates for that cycle, and have the new names
> > with the new mcu
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 7:50 AM Miguel Azevedo <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I agree that we should use the board name instead of the kit name, if
> dk is
> > > the same board as pdk.
> > >
> > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, 15:12 Andrzej Kaczmarek, <
> > > [email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Since nRF52840 DK is available for quite some time now, I was going
> to
> > > > rename "nrf52840pdk" to "nrf52840dk" so it matches current version.
> > > > However, it is a good moment to change naming scheme for all dev kits
> > > > from Nordic and use board name (e.g. PCA10056) instead of dev kit
> name
> > > > (e.g. nRF52840 DK). There are at least two good reasons for this:
> > > >
> > > > 1. avoid possible renames in future once new revision of dev kit is
> > > > launched (PDK -> DK) since this is the same board, just with a
> > > > different revision
> > > > 2. make selection of proper BSP easier since each board has its name
> > > > clearly visible on a sticker (note that BSP description states both
> > > > names)
> > > >
> > > > I created a PR which does such rename:
> > > > https://github.com/apache/mynewt-core/pull/1348
> > > >
> > > > Thoughs? Are there any good reasons why we should not rename it?
> > > > (except for historical reasons :P)
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > > Andrzej
> > > >
> > >
>

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