Re: Proposal for new naming schema

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Christian Meyer <chrisime mailing uni de> writes:  
> Darin, Christian Rose and I discussed about that problem yesterday on #nautilus. 
> We think it is about time to introduce a better/new naming schema. 
> Thus, it is easier to find out for coders which BRANCH they need and also for translators. 
>  
> I'd like to propose the following naming schema: 
>  
> For GNOME 1.x versions we should use something like: <package_name>-1. 
> or: <package_name-version>-gnome-1. 
> The latter one results in a very long BRANCH name. I don't know if everybody wants 
> that. 


The thing is that you might not branch a package for a given GNOME
release, for example you might just release an older branch. The
gtk-1-2 branch has been in three separate GNOME releases. How do you
handle that?

Havoc