Re: What to do in order to make the gnome development platform rock.

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman sun com>]

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>>> The `gnu.*' convention is already in wide use.  
>
>Bill> That doesn't make it right ;-)
>Bill> Should be org.gnu then, or org.fsf.
>
>Read this:
>
>    http://www.gnu.org/software/java/packages.html#why-just-gnu
>
>I didn't agree with this reasoning the first time I saw it (years
>ago).  However, it is a fact that this is widely used.  And I imagine
>it is very unlikely it will change.  For instance, I would probably
>resist efforts to rename the gnu.* packages in Classpath or libgcj,
>simply due to the administrative overhead.
>
>Tom


<sigh>

this is the kind of 'we know better' thinking that fosters fragmentation 
and forms the basis for so much nearly-but-not-quite-interoperable 
cruft.  A purely philosophical argument with no technical basis... quite 
different from, say, deviating from demonstrably broken/non-functional 
conventions.  So sad.  

But arguably mostly harmless in this instance, I hope.


-Bill

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Bill Haneman x19279
Gnome Accessibility / Batik SVG Toolkit
Sun Microsystems Ireland