Re: non-human readable naming ...

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com>]

> 	  I sympathise deeply with Gergo's comments, and furthermore with
> the current discussion about moniker based activation it would seem that
> putting what is essentialy a non-human-readable number on the end of a
> component is a terrible idea if as hackers we ever want to assemble our
> own moniker.

"Sample.gnumeric" would map that to whatever OAFID the gnumeric
component has.

> 	  Right; but there is luckily a free software foundation, a gnome
> foundation, helix code, eazel etc. to adopt these projects, I see no
> problem finding a vendor name for an open source component.

Flaw: projects outlive companies.

Miguel.