Re: GNOME Namespace Management - ARC & GNOME

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 15:39 -0800, Ed Hunter wrote:
> I think the last two messages from Murray and Mark bring up one important
> point.  We should try and first narrow down (or at least prioritize) the
> "interfaces" we care about.  Brian's initial question was around file system
> location.  He followed that up with a list of possible interface types that
> are of interest inside Sun and might be of interest to the GNOME community.
> Murray made a pass at identifying which of those were relevant.
[snip]
>  1. Libraries (APIs and SPIs, both functions and header files)
>  2. Command Line Utilities (applications or configuration or 
> 		administration tools)
>  3. Input/output file formats
>  4. Resource & configuration file names and formats and location
>  5. Protocols or inter-component messages
>  6. Log files location and format
>  7. Solaris package names

7 is not of interest to GNOME.

>  8. Daemons
>  9. URLs (need and example of this)
>  
> I would separate item one from the list since it sounds like there is already
> a lot of focus on that.  The next eight seem ripe for discussion on how their
> evolution might be documented and managed (if at all).

I have to get through John Plocher's email, which might answer some of
this.

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