Hi, I think the new name is fine.
It could include something in the name that indicates what it actually does. Best, Scuri Em dom, 9 de jun de 2019 03:26, sur-behoffski <[email protected]> escreveu: > G'day, > > As mentioned recently (and Antonio has seen one or two of the > foundational scripts over the years, off-list), I'm now trying > to help bring Tecgraf's IM/CD/IUP to the GNU/Linux Mint community. > > GNU/Linux Mint is based upon Ubuntu, which Tecgraf's tools > explicitly support, but I had to tweak a few things (by a > painful process of trial-and-error, in a couple of cases), to > get the tools to build and run successfully under Mint. > > I've found that an early major stumbling block was that the > "stable" releases were often quite different to the head of the > Subversion repository -- and that quite a number of things that > I found troublesome in the stable release were fixed in the live > repository. > > Changing focus from stable releases being the norm, through to > following Subversions being the norm, has been a central axis > what I've been calling various things, most recently my > "Tecgraf Assistant", with GNU/Linux Mint 18.3 being the only > initial supported platform, but where I've tried to anticipate > expansion to other platforms in a couple of places, where I > specify build commands, options, associated libraries, and > also other system-specific things like "apt-get" versus "rpm". > > Given that I'm now trying to put out a release of my toolkit > that is: > (a) Hopefully not too buggy; > (b) Is better released into the wild sooner rather > than later; and > (c) Can widen the audience for people to use and play > with the IM/CD/IUP tools under a popular GNU/Linux > environment; > > I want to add a project to GitHub. Until a couple of days > ago, I was mindlessly calling the tools the "Tecgraf Assistant", > but now realise that this implies an association with, and > probably an endorsement by, Tecgraf: Both of these implied > associations are not warranted. > > So, unless anyone has a better idea, I'm going to create a > project called "IM-CD-IUP Assistant", and try to scramble to use > this name in the documentation/comments/diagnostics etc, rather > than the name "Tecgraf Assistant" that I've been using for my > own use. > > I will try to remove all instances of the trademark "Tecgraf" > in the code, in places where I'm actually referring to the > Assistant itself, but would ask for your forgiveness and help > in correcting my misrepresentations quickly. I will still be > trying to acknowledge Tecgraf as the author of these packages, > and will strive to give them credit, by name, where appropriate. > > If anyone has any better suggestions, or, equally finds that > there are any copyright/trademark/patent properties that I am > potentially infringing, and can propose a better name, then > such suggestions would be welcomed. > > This is really a question for Antonio Scuri, as the "iup-l > mailing list public face" of all of IUP, CD and IM (despite > it being the IUP mailing list), so this request goes > especially to him. The request, and the response, however, > may help others in navigating the issues at hand, which is > why I'm posting publicly. > > (Incidentally, Scuri suggested to me, a couple of years ago, > that this list, iup-l, was effectively the main list for e-mail > traffic for all of IM, CD and IUP, which is why I'm including > all three packages here, and have done so for some time. If > my impression is wrong, then please tell me, and I will strive > to abide by the rules of the various lists.) > > cheers, > > sur-behoffski (Brenton Hoff) > programmer, Grouse Software > > > _______________________________________________ > Iup-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/iup-users >
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