Re: gEDA-user: fork of pcb ?

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well it is not really a democracy. The copyright holders are usually the
ones who pick the titles. I guess the distribution package maker can
name the package without changing the program names. 

Also take a look at gtk. Suse includes both gtk2-2.6.4-6 and
gtk-1.2.10-885. So they could as easily do a pcb3-whatever and a
pcb4-whatever.

Steve Meier



On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 22:07 +0100, Leva wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:50:06 -0600
> "Bert Douglas" <bertd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: "Stuart Brorson" <sdb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > 
> > > The problem lies not with the experienced user (i.e. readers of
> > > geda-user), but rather with newbies who tend to be kind of clueless,
> > > and will just Google on the name of the program when they want
> > > specific usage help.  Making their lives easier is a good thing for
> > > everybody.
> > 
> > The problem also lies with whoever makes packages for linux/bsd 
> > distributions.
> > 
> > The distributions will not permit two different packages with the same name.
> > 
> > So if both packages make it into popular linux/bsd distributions, there 
> > *will* be a name change of some kind.
> 
> I think we should organise a vote for this in the comunity.
> 
> What do you say?
> 
> Levente
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