On Wed 07 Jan 2009 at 10:20AM, Stephen Hahn wrote:
>
> For most of the Fridays in the fall, I would iterate randomly through
> the packages on my laptop, proposing a new package name based on the
> scheme from last spring. Eventually, I renamed everything, and then
> started writing checks to make sure groups of names appeared to be
> self-consistent. Once that was done, it was just before winter break,
> but Rich B has asked me for this a few times, so I'd better disgorge
> it.
>
> I've attached the script and the .pkl file with the renames, in case
> anyone wants to add new convention tests to see the impact. There are
> some unsettled questions about some of the common package basenames,
> like "base", "core", and "extra". It may be preferable to not allow
> these, and to force them into the role of suffixes--so
> "something-base" rather than "something/base". Unique basenames make
> pkg(1)'s abbreviation matching work directly.
>
> Also, I've used "feature/" generally to mark current packages that
> we should consider breaking up. The use is not consistent with the
> precise usage in Mike G's post, and is not meant to remain in use once
> we determine the future boundaries of the relevant packages.
>
> So, included below, is the output of the renaming script for about 671
> packages. It should be enough to trigger discussion.
Does a package's occupation of a slot in the namespace also preclude
descendants? (either by convention of by proposed code changes?)
That is to say, if system/font/x11 is a package, is it impossible (or
ill advised) to have system/font/x11/supplemental ?
At a higher level-- how do I know what is a category versus what
is not a category? How much work do you anticipate we will put
into the tools around knowing that "/" is a delimiter? That is
to say, given "print/a2ps", would "pkg install a2ps" be expected
to work, assuming a2ps is unambiguous?
> gcc-dev -> 'feature/develop/gnu'
> GNU Tools Development cluster
I think this is somewhat hard to understand. Perhaps preserving
some of the flavor of the thing in the last path element would be
nice:
feature/develop/gnu-dev
-dp
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Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - [email protected] - blogs.sun.com/dp
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