Re: What to do in order to make the gnome development platform rock.
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey redhat com>
- To: Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>
- Cc: Sander Vesik Sun COM, kenneth gnu org, gnome-hackers gnome org
- Subject: Re: What to do in order to make the gnome development platform rock.
- Date: 17 Sep 2001 10:03:03 -0600
>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM> writes:
Sander> having java packages called gnu.blah is not a good idea. In
Sander> fact, just arbitrarily leavng aside the standard package
Sander> naming convention is pointless.
>> The `gnu.*' convention is already in wide use.
Bill> That doesn't make it right ;-)
Bill> Should be org.gnu then, or org.fsf.
Read this:
http://www.gnu.org/software/java/packages.html#why-just-gnu
I didn't agree with this reasoning the first time I saw it (years
ago). However, it is a fact that this is widely used. And I imagine
it is very unlikely it will change. For instance, I would probably
resist efforts to rename the gnu.* packages in Classpath or libgcj,
simply due to the administrative overhead.
Tom
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