Re: Epiphany executable name change

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco gnome org>]

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 10:56, Robert Marcano wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 17:38, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 07:58, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Yeah it make a lot of sense. This will have to be solved in some way in
> > Debian but upstream changes, at this point, are not possible for
> > epiphany.
> > 
> It would be interesting to begin to create a link to the epiphany
> executable with a new name and deprecate the old name for a future non
> ABI compatible GNOME Release (3.0?)

That make sense to me.

Marco