Summary of Adam's GNOME on BSD talk

[Adam Weinberger]

Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> adamw, do you still want to change the name (foobar2 -> foobar) if 
> there  is no two of it?

I can't even begin to explain how imperative I think this is. The 
following steps must take place:

I. Immediately
   1. All GNOME 1 components should be renamed (foo -> foo1). This is 
*WAY* overdue.

II. Before GNOME 3 (ASAP)
   1. All GNOME 2 components should be repocopied to a numberless name 
(foo2 -> foo).
   2. The name should reflect the proper package name whenever possible 
(i.e. gnome-desktop, not gnomedesktop).

III. When GNOME 3 is released
   1. GNOME 2 stuff should immediately be repocopied to a versioned 
name/number (foo -> foo2).
   2. GNOME 3 stuff should go in an unnumbered name (foo). This should 
be our definitive convention: if a port directory specifies a number, it 
is an old version (i.e. gtkmm should be the current gtkmm; gtkmm22 
should be the old version, and gtk--/gtk--2 needs to go away immediately).
   3. We should *not* preserve the GNOME 2 desktop. Once GNOME 3 comes 
out, I assume that there will be no more 2.x releases. We should only 
preserve components necessary to support individual apps, and those 
should be phased out as quickly as possible.

Comments/thoughts?

# Adam


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