Re: Using Gnome Vendor

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 10:28, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 09:19, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > Le mer 02/04/2003 à 00:39, Fernando Herrera a écrit :
> > > 	Hi, I would like to encourage vendors and distributors to use
> > > the Gnome Vendor tag in gnome-desktop. It's really easy, you only need
> > > to patch gnome-desktop/configure.in to modify:
> > > 	GNOME_VENDOR="Gnome.Org"
> > > 
> > > 	It would be great to have here "Red Hat", "Debian", "sun", and
> > > "Garnome", "jhbuild", etc...
> > > 
> > > 	As a lot of people requested it, I've added a distribution tag in
> > > bug-buddy reports (I will appreciate patches for sun,irix,hp-ux and
> > > not-so-common distros). If we add to the gnome-desktoip xml file another
> > > field as "Vendor Release" wewould be able to get rid of this current
> > > distro-autodetection code.
> > 
> > Done since Mandrake 9.0 :))
> 
> Shouldn't it be either 'gnome' or 'GNOME' and not 'Gnome' ?
> 

Yeah.

> Besides that, isn't vendor a term better applied on commercial packages,
> like RedHat, Mandrake, Ximian GNOME etc? I mean, GNOME isn't an
> organization, the GNOME Foundation is (however, it is a non profit), but
> an 'umbrella' project...

Not really. gnome.org distributes a version of GNOME - it vends it. OK,
it doesn't sell it, but it's still a distributor.

Of course, the main point of the vendor field is for other vendors to
replace it - this is why it's called that.

-- 
Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>

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