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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