Re: ITP: adun.app -- a Molecular Simulator
Gurkan Sengun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-08-31 13:24:21 +0200 Steffen Joeris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi On Thursday 31 August 2006 01:58, Gürkan Sengün wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: adun.app Maybe I miss some essential parts, but I always wonder why some people add a .app to the software name? Can you please give me a short explanation or point me to a previous thread? they don't. it's just the debian packages that do. to not rape the debian package name space. That's a worthwile goal. please check the mailing list archive for details. why, are you having a problem with the names? I think this is also already in the archives: To the knowing, the .app suffix indicates that it is a Gnustep application. To everyone else, .app is pretty much meaningless. Therefore I'd prefer if you'd use a suffix with a less arcane meaning, like -gnustep. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
Re: ITP: adun.app -- a Molecular Simulator
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: .app is pretty much meaningless. Therefore I'd prefer if you'd use a suffix with a less arcane meaning, like -gnustep. Does anyone truly care? Is it worth any effort to rename? -miles -- Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends. -Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Re: ITP: adun.app -- a Molecular Simulator
Miles Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: .app is pretty much meaningless. Therefore I'd prefer if you'd use a suffix with a less arcane meaning, like -gnustep. Does anyone truly care? Is it worth any effort to rename? It's an ITP, why not do it better with new packages? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
Re: ITP: adun.app -- a Molecular Simulator
On 2006-08-31 13:24:21 +0200 Steffen Joeris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi On Thursday 31 August 2006 01:58, Gürkan Sengün wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: adun.app Maybe I miss some essential parts, but I always wonder why some people add a .app to the software name? Can you please give me a short explanation or point me to a previous thread? they don't. it's just the debian packages that do. to not rape the debian package name space. please check the mailing list archive for details. why, are you having a problem with the names? Cheers Steffen yours, Guerkan
Re: ITP: adun.app -- a Molecular Simulator
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 10:12:04PM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:24:21PM +1000, Steffen Joeris wrote: * Package name: adun.app Maybe I miss some essential parts, but I always wonder why some people add a .app to the software name? Can you please give me a short explanation or point me to a previous thread? IIRC .app is usually used by apps with gnustep support (e.g. WindowMaker dockapps). It doesn't normally mean they only work on gnustep though, just that they use some features from gnustep, when available. Just like all the stuff that prepends 'k' or mispells its initial letter as 'k'. -- 1KB // Microsoft corollary to Hanlon's razor: // Never attribute to stupidity what can be // adequately explained by malice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ITP: adun.app -- a Molecular Simulator
Hi On Thursday 31 August 2006 01:58, Gürkan Sengün wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: adun.app Maybe I miss some essential parts, but I always wonder why some people add a .app to the software name? Can you please give me a short explanation or point me to a previous thread? Cheers Steffen pgpxBWvNnr2RF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ITP: adun.app -- a Molecular Simulator
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:24:21PM +1000, Steffen Joeris wrote: Hi * Package name: adun.app Maybe I miss some essential parts, but I always wonder why some people add a .app to the software name? Can you please give me a short explanation or point me to a previous thread? IIRC .app is usually used by apps with gnustep support (e.g. WindowMaker dockapps). It doesn't normally mean they only work on gnustep though, just that they use some features from gnustep, when available. -- GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: ITP: adun.app -- a Molecular Simulator
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:12:04 -0400, Daniel Dickinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:24:21PM +1000, Steffen Joeris wrote: Hi * Package name : adun.app Maybe I miss some essential parts, but I always wonder why some people add a .app to the software name? Can you please give me a short explanation or point me to a previous thread? IIRC .app is usually used by apps with gnustep support (e.g. WindowMaker dockapps). It doesn't normally mean they only work on gnustep though, just that they use some features from gnustep, when available. To clarify, .app is generally used by GNUstep programs, and for some dockapps. Dockapps that are not written specifically for GNUstep don't use GNUstep features at all, and those that use GNUstep features rely on GNUstep. I am not aware of any that don't rely on GNUstep, but that use GNUstep features when present. There seems to be only a handful of dockapps that use .app, though, so if you see a package that says .app, chances are that it's a GNUstep program. And nearly all GNUstep programs say .app. The .app comes from the NeXT nomenclature of programs. -- Hubert Chan - email Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
