Re: REQUEST: Name change for Anjuta 2

[Jeroen Zwartepoorte <jeroen xs4all nl>]

Hi John,

While i agree that a namechange might be good so people know the
difference between the two projects, it requires quite a lot of changes
to the source itself. And we've already done this once before going from
gIDE to anjuta2. Calling it Gnome Development Studio (gds for short)
sucks for a project name (ideally i'd like to call it "evolution"; that
just fits so much better with a development tool than a groupware tool
;) )

What do other people think of this? Gustavo, Naba, Dave?

Jeroen

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 05:33, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> I don't know if Anjuta2 will ever become the focus of the core Anjuta
> team now that Anjuta 1 for Gnome 2 has been gaining so much steam.  I
> however have expressed my feelings that Anjuta 2 is great codebase that
> not only builds on Gnome technologies but also has become a sort of
> testbed on how those thechnologies should be used (Bonobo, user
> configurable containers, good moduler design, etc.).  
> 
> I feel that despite some of the positives of Anjuta 2 it is being
> over-shadowed by the more feature rich Anjuta project and not being able
> to stand on its own merits.  Every time there is a new release of Anjuta
> people get confused on what exactly is released.  Most people do not
> look at version numbers except to see which one is bigger.  
> 
> I propose that Anjuta 2 be renamed to something like Gnome Development
> Studio (though that may be a bit pretentious) and that it be refocused
> into a development enviornment that makes working with Gnome
> technologies easy (HIG, GObjects, Bonobo, GConf, etc.).  Anjuta itself
> can continue on being the great general purpose IDE that it is.
> 
> As for those who hate to split and duplicate efforts I say that this
> would not be the case.  Anjuta 2 features a moduler design that allows
> its components to be reused by other programs (as in the case of
> gtksourceview being used by gedit).  It is also my understanding that
> Anjuta 1 can or will be able to use Anjuta 2 plugins at some point.  
> 
> Choice is good and while it was good intentions that led the Anjuta team
> and gIDE team to join forces, reality stepped in and the two could never
> realy be merged.  Now, I belive, it is time to part ways while
> maintaining the similar goals of developing great development tools for
> both Linux and Gnome. 
> 
> --
> J5
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