Stefan Hundhammer napsal(a):
> On Wednesday 02 April 2008 14:45, Lukas Ocilka wrote:
>> I'm sure you understood openYAST was a joke.
>>
>> YaST -> YAST could be joint with the new look and feel made in openSUSE
>> 11.0 (Qt and ncurses wizard).
> 
> OK, you asked for it, now here it comes...
> 
> Renaming existing software is just about the most stupid thing you can do. 
> Ever.
> 
> 
> Remember when whoever decided to rename YaST2 to just YaST?
> 
> We renamed some things on the outside. Most user-visible stuff was renamed. 
> Or 
> at least, so we thought. But since we never followed it through completely, 
> all we got was one big mess. Some things are renamed, some are not. Some you 
> just can't rename because it's deep within APIs nobody wants to change or 
> even just can change just like that. It would break a lot of things.
> 
> We made that mistake once, and we never recovered from it. It's now one big 
> mess - things are inconsistent all over the place. Think of package names 
> (all starting with yast2-). Think of C++ class names (many of them prefixed 
> with Y2Something - Y2 for "YaST2"). Think of user-visible strings - many 
> translated, others not.
> 
> Now what on earth would make us spread this confusion even further? Are you 
> bored, or do you really mean to carry on a 1st April's joke further?

OK, I got what I needed. Strong opinions are the most important ones.
But it always depends on the presentation. Some people might feel offended.

Thx & Bye
Jast

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