On Mar 10, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Rob van Maris wrote:
On Mar 10, 2005, at 6:57 PM, Michiel Meeuwissen wrote:About the name. Since in the same phrase you call it 'applications' and the
current module is called applications, I would propose
'third-party-applications', or so, to not contribute to the confusion. I
think a 'package' is the result of a build on an 'mmbase application' (or
you can talk about a 'package containing an application'. Well err, I don't
know. I think Daniel wants 'packages'.
Let's be pragmatic about this and not make matters too complicated. IIRC the terminology introduced by the Packaging Project is:
- package: functional unit of software,
- bundle: larger work, assembled from a selection of packages.
In a general (i.e. non-MMBase) context these are commonly referred to as modules and applications. However, in a MMBase context this should be discouraged, as both "module" and "application" have a more specific (albeit legacy) meaning here.
My suggestion for the name of the new CVS module is simply "third-party", reflecting the fact that its basically a heterogenous collection of contributions with varying structure.
I agree i infact more object to the applications than i am for packages, im more than happy with any generic name that doesn't try to explain itself. 3e party or
contrib are all fine with me.
Daniel.
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