Re: Renaming CVS Modules for Sanity's Sake

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 04:30:07PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>  
>
> > <quote who="Havoc Pennington">
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Yes, I would love a rename for gnome-terminal. I've just been trying
> > > to figure out when to do it that wouldn't annoy everybody.
> > >      
> > Let's be very loud about it, and do it now. :-) Right after stable release,
> > just before most of the 2.1.x stuff kicks in. We should announce these
> > changes to hackers and desktop-devel.
> >    
>
> If you're just going to rename the directory, then put an entry in
> CVSROOT/modules linking the name profterm to gnome-terminal. People
> won't suspect a thing, then. :-)
>  
Except that their local copy won't work with a "cvs update" (as the 
CVSROOT/modules file is only consulted for "cvs checkout").  A symbolic 
link would probably work though (unless there are some locking issues).

James.

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