On 07-Apr-2000 Richard Hartman wrote:
> My only concern here is really to make the choices easily
> distinguishable to someone just coming in looking for some
> tools. Since the Marshall toolset and the Sokolov toolset
> are NOT successive versions to each other, I firmly believe
> that they need different names.
Yes but I don't care if they are both called prc-tools. Confusion and other
things like that don't matter much to me, I only care if it breaks backwards
compatibility and/or breaks my system's packaging system. So in other words,
the status quo is currently fine with me and I look forward to using both of
them. Though not having much fun with 2.0 at the moment.
> btw: how would -any- name change "break things"? The only
> problem I can see is if they both continue with the same name...
More than can be imagined. The integrity of all package systems is dependent
upon the package naming. In fact, there is NOTHING more frustrating than
when packages change names between distributions because it means that
everyone must take special care to resolve dependency problems and that is
such a waste of effort. This is the main reason that sites such as
sourceforge actually forbid the changing of module names.
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