On Oct 25, 2007 at 12:31 AM Tomasz Sterna wrote: > Dnia 25-10-2007, Cz o godzinie 00:02 -0700, Mark Doliner pisze: > > It took me a long time to get a good feel for the distinction between > > jabberd14 and jabberd2. I think the names are probably confusing to > > anyone not familiar with the projects. It seems like it might be a > > good idea for the jabberd2 project to use "jabberd2" in many places > > where it currently uses "jabberd." > > [...] > > This issue was brought many times and not only in context of jabberd. > Apache HTTPd for example. > > My standpoint is, that major rewrite of the software does not need > renaming the project. Major version bump is enough. > jabberd 1.x is not the same software as jabberd 2.x, like apache 1.x is > not the same software as apache 2.x, like Die Hard 1 is not the same > movie as Die Hard 2. > > The problems you mention are local deployment issues. > There is a problem with many current Linux and Unix distributions, that > they do not handle many different versions of same software at the same > time. But this is a distribution problem (deployment issue). There are > distributions, that cope with this well. > > The site name and list name are legacy of the migration. It was linked > in many places, so I think it is too late to change it. > > > > It just seems like it would be helpful for there to be a greater > > distinction between jabberd14 and jabberd2. > > Next release of jabberd14 will be called xmppd, so there should be no > more confusion.
Oh I didn't realize that. That should make things much better. Thanks for the clarification! -Mark _______________________________________________ Jabberd2 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiaoka.com/listinfo.cgi/jabberd2-xiaoka.com
