Re: Epiphany executable name change

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

Am Do, den 30.10.2003 schrieb Alexander Larsson um 13:39:
> On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 18:13, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > we are going to be forced to change epiphany executable name because
> > it conflicts with an older project distributed in debian.
> > See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196491 for details.
> > 
> > Someone proposed, while we are at it, to rename to gnome-web-browser.
> > Has anyone problems with it ? Assuming it's ok to do it, would be better
> > to use a symlink (and to rename the real executable to epiphany-browser
> > to avoid the conflict) or to rename the real executable directly ?
> > 
> > The mime db and control center will have to be patched with the updated
> > name.
> > 
> > Thanks for any feedback
> 
> Renaming the epiphany executable seems to be a pretty bad ABI break. It
> can break all sort of user configurations. I'm not sure a collision with
> some old game is worth that. I mean, it took quite some time before
> anyone even noticed.
Exactly. It's part of the GNOME Desktop, so this isn't very
user-friendly, especially if you created an Ephy starter in 2.4. If
Debian people consider this a big problem, they'll have to rename/patch
this on their own.

regs,
 Chris