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.
I just wanted to use the occasion to do something about the terminilogy, or at least to record it. > 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. Perhaps yes, but still everybody talks about 'third party applications' and not about 'third party packages'. Currently a CVS module is called 'applications'. I think it is worth recording actual use, like they do in dictionairies, perhaps with notices about if something is 'encouraged' or not. I think btw that there is not much wrong with a word that has a specific and a more general meaning at the same time. This is very common. > 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. 'third-party' I like as well, but 'contrib' has some parallels in other projects isn't it? (Well, at least it reminds me of debian's 'contrib'). MIchiel -- Michiel Meeuwissen mihxil' Mediacentrum 140 H'sum [] () +31 (0)35 6772979 nl_NL eo_XX en_US _______________________________________________ Developers mailing list Developers@lists.mmbase.org http://lists.mmbase.org/mailman/listinfo/developers
