Module versioning

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at moongroup.com
Tue May 6 09:46:13 CEST 2003


On Tue, 6 May 2003 12:20:59 +0530
Biju Chacko <biju_chacko at vsnl.net> wrote:

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> On Tue, 6 May 2003 08:22:45 +0200, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
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> > On Tue, 6 May 2003 08:57:13 +0530
> > Biju Chacko <biju_chacko at vsnl.net> wrote:
> > > I don't know if we need to rename the applications and libraries
> > > too, but the package names badly need to be rationalised.
> > > 
> > 
> > Good point. I thought we might be able to do that when (if?) we move
> > the sources from xfce-devel to their final location (xfce4?). I'd
> > vote for this naming scheme:
> > 
> > xfce4-<something>
> > libxfce4-<something>
> 
> I disagree. IMO,
> 
> xfce4-foo-*
> xfce4-libfoo-*
> 
> would be better. This way in directory listings, package file
> listings, etc, all the required packages for xfce4 would be listed
> together. This would reduce chances for confusion.
> 

hmm, I kinda like the library/other-stuff split, but I really don't care
too much. It would simply be nice if it all looked a bit less randomly
thrown together.




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