diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20110117/002190.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20110117/002190.html | 107 |
1 files changed, 107 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20110117/002190.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20110117/002190.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..934742fbb --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20110117/002190.html @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] What to do for software having MDV/Mandriva in name + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20What%20to%20do%20for%20software%20having%20MDV/Mandriva%20in%09name&In-Reply-To=%3C20110117021714.GH10402%40virgo.home.nanardon.zarb.org%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="002189.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="002197.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] What to do for software having MDV/Mandriva in name</H1> + <B>Olivier Thauvin</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20What%20to%20do%20for%20software%20having%20MDV/Mandriva%20in%09name&In-Reply-To=%3C20110117021714.GH10402%40virgo.home.nanardon.zarb.org%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] What to do for software having MDV/Mandriva in name">nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org + </A><BR> + <I>Mon Jan 17 03:17:15 CET 2011</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002189.html">[Mageia-dev] What to do for software having MDV/Mandriva in name +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002197.html">[Mageia-dev] What to do for software having MDV/Mandriva in name +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2190">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2190">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2190">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2190">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>* Hoyt Duff (<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">hoytduff at gmail.com</A>) wrote: +><i> On 1/16/11, Olivier Thauvin <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org</A>> wrote: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > So I am favor to import it with this name (we didn't rename RPM because +</I>><i> > it mean RedHat Package Manager...). +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> +</I>><i> At the risk of being called pedantic, RPM _now_ stands for "RPM +</I>><i> Package Manager" in all its GNU recursive acronym goodness (GNU's Not +</I>><i> Unix, WINE Is Not an Emulator, etc.) for precisely the reason you +</I>><i> raise, so people would not use/drop it because of the RedHat name. +</I> +Thanks for the explanation... + +But it was not the case when Mandrake started to use it, and neither +when Mandrake became Mandriva (The new name appeared with the rpm5 +fork, and IIRC this fork appeared after Mandriva). + +><i> +</I>><i> Where MDK or drak is part of the application name (and hence the +</I>><i> package name), it should not be changed because that is its name and +</I>><i> Mandriva did, in fact, create it. When Mageia writes its own +</I>><i> applications (mageiahelp, diskmagia, mageiasound) or forks the +</I>><i> MDK/drak application (and starts separate, non-cooperative +</I>><i> development), then change the name. Otherwise, it might be seen as if +</I>><i> we are trying to hide something if only the name appears to change +</I>><i> just to obscure the Mandriva origins.. +</I> +The problem is not only the name, but also all technical a rename can +cause. The 'MDV' is part of perl module name, then it create +dependencies between them. Changing this will force us to immediatelly +patch some applications. + +There is way to create compatibility (Rafael Garcia-Suarez and I did it +to rename MDK to MDV in past). +I am just afraid by all breakage this can cause. + +-- + +Olivier Thauvin +CNRS - LATMOS +♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖ +-------------- next part -------------- +A non-text attachment was scrubbed... +Name: not available +Type: application/pgp-signature +Size: 197 bytes +Desc: not available +URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20110117/7f716121/attachment.asc> +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002189.html">[Mageia-dev] What to do for software having MDV/Mandriva in name +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002197.html">[Mageia-dev] What to do for software having MDV/Mandriva in name +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2190">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2190">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2190">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2190">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |