tuomo, I today learned 2 things:
a) ion3 has been removed from `macports' which is the MacOSX package management system. in terms of installed base, if one can believe available statistics, macos x is _much_ larger than all the other *ixes and *uxes together -- actually the only OS besides windows with a significant number of installations (sure, how many mac users actually install x11-wms - or other open source software for that matter - is a different question). it's in this respect not a peripheral platform. b) debian seems to distribute now ion3 under some nonsense name (particelMan?) in order to adhere to your licence (I was'nt aware of this naming aspect, actually). you sure, that that's what you want for `ion3'. some kind of name aliasing tricks for the only reason that your license calls for such things? which does prevent exactly what? which does have exactly what benfits? I think it really would be a wise and nice thing to do and draw a line at demanding some unambigous info in the package that it's none of your buiseness if an old version does not work as expected. enforcing "under cover" names is ridiculous. otherwise this seems a sure strategy to finish `ion3' off outside of a _very_ small group. I'm sure you would'nt care but need you enforce such a thing? joerg
