On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:36:07PM -0430, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > Paul Wise wrote: > > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras > > <ghostbar38@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>> Why are there even two versions of the library? One should be enough. > >>> > >> Hi Paul, libtorrent (for rakshasa) is used by rtorrent (same upstream), > >> rasterbar is used by another clients. Is not the same, does have the > >> same name but they're different. > > > > Ah, ok, they aren't forks or anything like that. My comment still > > stands though, I think both libraries need to merge upstream, and or > > use much less generic names. > > > Well, as far as I can see their develop goes in totally different > directions so I don't believe a merge of upstream is very viable. I > believe there'll be no issues with the name, after all is not that any > user (but developers, which will look further, I hope...) will try to > install any of both individually but as dependency of a client. I agree with Jose that a merge of upstream doesn't make sense, since these libraries are really different pieces of software with several years of development. On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:29:44PM -0430, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > > That makes sense. How about a change in the short description, > > instead? > > apt-cache search libtorrent should make it clear that it's the > > rakshasha one. > > > I agree, definitely. In fact, is done in the next version to be > uploaded > to experimental. On the contrary, I think that relying on developers' care is not enough, and libtorrent10 is too generic name. Moreover, actually only one client depends on that library (rtorrent), where a lot of projects ([1] and more not listed here, such as Deluge) depend on libtorrent-rasterbar. Thus, IMHO we need to change also the name of libtorrent10 and libtorrent-dev, and the short description of rtorrent (which says "ncurses BitTorrent client based on LibTorrent"). BTW, I uploaded a new version of the libtorrent-rasterbar which contains a new (much clear) short description. Regards, Cristian [1] http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libtorrent/projects.html
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