G'day,
As mentioned recently (and Antonio has seen one or two of the
foundational scripts over the years, off-list), I'm now trying
to help bring Tecgraf's IM/CD/IUP to the GNU/Linux Mint community.
GNU/Linux Mint is based upon Ubuntu, which Tecgraf's tools
explicitly support, but I had to tweak a few things (by a
painful process of trial-and-error, in a couple of cases), to
get the tools to build and run successfully under Mint.
I've found that an early major stumbling block was that the
"stable" releases were often quite different to the head of the
Subversion repository -- and that quite a number of things that
I found troublesome in the stable release were fixed in the live
repository.
Changing focus from stable releases being the norm, through to
following Subversions being the norm, has been a central axis
what I've been calling various things, most recently my
"Tecgraf Assistant", with GNU/Linux Mint 18.3 being the only
initial supported platform, but where I've tried to anticipate
expansion to other platforms in a couple of places, where I
specify build commands, options, associated libraries, and
also other system-specific things like "apt-get" versus "rpm".
Given that I'm now trying to put out a release of my toolkit
that is:
(a) Hopefully not too buggy;
(b) Is better released into the wild sooner rather
than later; and
(c) Can widen the audience for people to use and play
with the IM/CD/IUP tools under a popular GNU/Linux
environment;
I want to add a project to GitHub. Until a couple of days
ago, I was mindlessly calling the tools the "Tecgraf Assistant",
but now realise that this implies an association with, and
probably an endorsement by, Tecgraf: Both of these implied
associations are not warranted.
So, unless anyone has a better idea, I'm going to create a
project called "IM-CD-IUP Assistant", and try to scramble to use
this name in the documentation/comments/diagnostics etc, rather
than the name "Tecgraf Assistant" that I've been using for my
own use.
I will try to remove all instances of the trademark "Tecgraf"
in the code, in places where I'm actually referring to the
Assistant itself, but would ask for your forgiveness and help
in correcting my misrepresentations quickly. I will still be
trying to acknowledge Tecgraf as the author of these packages,
and will strive to give them credit, by name, where appropriate.
If anyone has any better suggestions, or, equally finds that
there are any copyright/trademark/patent properties that I am
potentially infringing, and can propose a better name, then
such suggestions would be welcomed.
This is really a question for Antonio Scuri, as the "iup-l
mailing list public face" of all of IUP, CD and IM (despite
it being the IUP mailing list), so this request goes
especially to him. The request, and the response, however,
may help others in navigating the issues at hand, which is
why I'm posting publicly.
(Incidentally, Scuri suggested to me, a couple of years ago,
that this list, iup-l, was effectively the main list for e-mail
traffic for all of IM, CD and IUP, which is why I'm including
all three packages here, and have done so for some time. If
my impression is wrong, then please tell me, and I will strive
to abide by the rules of the various lists.)
cheers,
sur-behoffski (Brenton Hoff)
programmer, Grouse Software
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