Re: Namespace pollution
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:
>
> > Approval will not normally be granted except for the use of capital
> > letters where there appear in an upstream package command name.
>
> Was this approved? Christian?
>
> I'm packaging Login.app, a graphical login prompt. The name of
> the binary is Login.app, dot and all. Does this pollute
> namespace? The .app part is going to be troublesome, because it
> looks like a couple of upstream authors think it's cool to have
> program names ending in .app, like NeXTStep... hmmmfff! Since
> Ian's proposal said "not matching [^a-z0-9] login-app isn't valid
> either...
Thinking about that, what about in.telnetd and friends?
Remco
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