Re: gnu.* namespace discussion

[Nic Ferrier]

>>> Emil Eifrem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16-Apr-00 1:04:39 AM >>>
At 12:46 AM 4/16/00 , Nic Ferrier wrote:


>Well, it so happens that I'm really writing a framework for 
>distributed server side components, and the mud is really 
>just an example implementation. So gnu.games isn't good either.

gnu.framework    /8->


>And so on. It's going to be very hard to classify the diverse and
often
>wide-ranging GNU projects into such categories. IBM is possibly the
largest
>vendor of open Java packages and they seem to do fine with
>com.ibm.packagename. Maybe what we need is not a restructure of the
>namespace but a better management of the namespace. -shrug-

Yes, but that is quite hard in the GNU project becasue we can't have
the sort of administration that I expect IBM have (a name registrar,
etc...). I would be happy to take on such a task for a while but who
would replace me? and who would listen to me anyway?



Nic