Re: Using Gnome Vendor

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 17:33, Sander Vesik wrote:
> On 4 Apr 2003, Mike Newman wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 08:07, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > > > The fact that the tag is not visible to the user makes the issue
> > > less > important, but we have seen it still can cause confusion.
> > > Renaming it to > "distributor" can't hurt. This XML file is already
> > > out there in the wild, with software (including non-"GNOME official"
> > > software) already relying on it. Changing a non user visible,
> > > machine-readable XML file schema will not provide a strong enough
> > > benefit to offset the pain involved. Then again, and I hate to say
> > > it... "patches are accepted". - Jeff
> > 
> > Filed a bug, attached a patch:
> > 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109979
> > 
> > to make gnome-about understand either 'vendor' or 'distributor'.
> > 
> 
> If people have problems with existing conventions, they should write a GEP
> to chnage it, and not merely complain about it on mailing lists.

A GEP is overkill for a detail that is technically minor. This is only a
major change for linguistic reasons, for reasons linked to by rms.

-- 
Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>

"If we eventually have the ubercool component system - based on Bonobo, or
something else - then great, we can then proxy it over IIOP, D-BUS, SOAP,
and morse code." -- hp