Bug#180628: RFP: dav -- Dav (Dav Ain't Vi) is meant to provide a stable text editor that is efficient in both memory and processor usage

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 08:22:40PM +0100, Christian Surchi wrote:

> > Christian Surchi <csurchi@debian.org> writes:
> > 
> > > * Package name    : dav
> > >   Version         : 0.8.0 
> > >   Upstream Author : David Gucwa <daverd@seanbaby.com>
> > > * URL             : http://www.some.org/

This name is very much in conflict with widespread use of Distributed
Authoring and Versioning (RFC2518, aka WEBDAV).  For example:

libapache-mod-dav - A DAV module for Apache
libapache2-dav-svn - Apache module for Subversion - in development, alpha
libhttp-dav-perl - HTTP:DAV - WebDAV client library for Perl.
python-davlib - WebDAV client library for Python
sitecopy - A program for managing a WWW site via FTP, DAV or HTTP
xsitecopy - A program for managing a WWW site via FTP, DAV or HTTP(GNOME version)

A name change would be a small but significant contribution to the
namespace.

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 - mdz