Scott Johnston wrote: > Very interesting. It seems Tim Heller's dclock and the InterViews > dclock have co-existed since the 1980's. It would take a little more > research to determine which program was actually published first, but > they were both available by 1988. If it was a program I had created in > the 1990's I would have no problem renaming it, but as this program > pre-dates my involvement in the source code, and has a constituency of > its own, I don't feel I should be making this change in the source > distribution.
Come to think of it, Debian also provides another approach to resolving the problem: since the two dclocks are more or less functionally interchangeable, they could share the namespace via the /etc/alternatives system. However, this would require renaming both packaged binaries, one to dclock.iv and the other to dclock.sipb (or whatever). > But perhaps you were simply asking the Debian maintainer to make this > change, something over which I would have no objection or control. At > the moment I know the Debian ivtools' packages are up for adoption. > Are you interested? Unfortunately I couldn't - I know the administrative side well enough, but I Am Not A Programmer... -- JBR Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
