Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-02-02 Thread Uriel
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > 2010/1/27 Enno Boland (Gottox) : >> The name "surf" of my browser has derived directly from one of the >> first proof of concept I wrote. Unfortunally cassmodiah from the >> fedora project pointed out, that there are some other projects tha

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-02-01 Thread Jessta
On 29 January 2010 19:37, jokke wrote: > Just suckless-porn 8-P~ ...who wants porn with less suck? Seriously? too easy. -- = http://jessta.id.au

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-29 Thread jokke
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:33:13 +, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > On 28 January 2010 20:46, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Couldn't you just rename surf to porn? > > Or rather pornium ;) No, no, no, Just suckless-porn 8-P~ Erno Kuvaja

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-29 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 28 January 2010 20:46, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Couldn't you just rename surf to porn? Or rather pornium ;)

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-28 Thread Enno Boland (Gottox)
BWAHAHA! Starting this thread has paid of just because of this! ;) 2010/1/29 Kurt H Maier : > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Niki Yoshiuchi wrote: >> I thought it was for looking at pictures of cats with bad grammar. > > well then you have terrible taste in porn > > > -- > # Kurt H Maier > >

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-28 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Niki Yoshiuchi wrote: > I thought it was for looking at pictures of cats with bad grammar. well then you have terrible taste in porn -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-28 Thread Niki Yoshiuchi
I thought it was for looking at pictures of cats with bad grammar. On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Samuel Baldwin wrote: > 2010/1/28 Moritz Wilhelmy : > > Why that? > > What else do people use the internet for these days? Certainly nothing > productive... > > -- > Samuel Baldwin - logik.li > >

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-28 Thread Samuel Baldwin
2010/1/28 Moritz Wilhelmy : > Why that? What else do people use the internet for these days? Certainly nothing productive... -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-28 Thread hiro
Well, isn't that what surfing is all about? On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:46:23PM +0100, hiro wrote: >> Couldn't you just rename surf to porn? > > Why that? > >

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-28 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:46:23PM +0100, hiro wrote: > Couldn't you just rename surf to porn? Why that?

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-28 Thread hiro
Couldn't you just rename surf to porn?

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-28 Thread Kai Heide
It's a question of the userbase Debian and BSD are very big distributors with many subprojects and so on. a browser called surf from suckless is definitly more important to the outside world than the other surf! 2010/1/27 Enno Boland (Gottox) > Hi everyone! > > The name "surf" of my browser has

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-27 Thread julien steinhauser
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:40:08AM +0100, Enno Boland (Gottox) wrote: > > In my opinion the name "surf" is just made for a project like this. > And I want to stick with it. > > What do you think? > I totally agree with you and I thank you for this browser.

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-27 Thread Daniel Baumann
Pierre Chapuis wrote: > There is almost no way to avoid name conflicts in OSS projects, I think > it's the job of the packagers to take care of that in each > distribution. totally, yes. in debian (surf is waiting in the new queue), there's no other package called surf. so that other surf must be

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-27 Thread Jacob Todd
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:40:08AM +0100, Enno Boland (Gottox) wrote: > Hi everyone! > > The name "surf" of my browser has derived directly from one of the > first proof of concept I wrote. Unfortunally cassmodiah from the > fedora project pointed out, that there are some other projects that > are

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-27 Thread Pierre Chapuis
Le Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:48:29 +0100, Moritz Wilhelmy a écrit : > I guess the easiest attempt for distributions to distribute suckless code is > not distributing it at all. > People using suckless software are usually capable of configuring it by > themselves, > which means they have to edit the s

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-27 Thread Anselm R Garbe
2010/1/27 Moritz Wilhelmy : > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:28:06PM +0100, Simon Wesp wrote: >> 2010/1/27 Pierre Chapuis >> >> > I think it's the job of the packagers to take care of that in each >> > distribution. If they want to rename the binary to surf-browser or >> > suckless-surf, they can do i

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-27 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:28:06PM +0100, Simon Wesp wrote: > 2010/1/27 Pierre Chapuis > > > I think it's the job of the packagers to take care of that in each > > distribution. If they want to rename the binary to surf-browser or > > suckless-surf, they can do it easily. > > > Of course, this is

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-27 Thread Anselm R Garbe
2010/1/27 Simon Wesp : > 2010/1/27 Anselm R Garbe >> >> > - surf.sourceforge.net >> That project seems dead anyways for 7 years. > >  No, this isn't correct. They haven't updatet their page, but the software > is still alive. > >> > - and some other software, which isn't maintained anymore. >> Who

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-27 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:02:50AM +, Pierre Chapuis wrote: > There is almost no way to avoid name conflicts in OSS projects, I think This isn't true, there are projects named urxvt and ncmpcpp But unless you want to end up with such a name for your project, it is quite hard, I agree.

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-27 Thread Simon Wesp
2010/1/27 Pierre Chapuis > I think it's the job of the packagers to take care of that in each > distribution. If they want to rename the binary to surf-browser or > suckless-surf, they can do it easily. > Of course, this is easy and so on, but this is definitly not a distribution issue! It can b

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-27 Thread Simon Wesp
2010/1/27 Anselm R Garbe > > - surf.sourceforge.net > That project seems dead anyways for 7 years. > No, this isn't correct. They haven't updatet their page, but the software is still alive. > - and some other software, which isn't maintained anymore. > Who cares? > > > I want to discuss wha

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-27 Thread Pierre Chapuis
Le Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:40:08 +0100, "Enno Boland (Gottox)" a écrit : > - surf.sourceforge.net Surf is indeed the standard name for functions that plot shaded surfaces in visualisation software (think Matlab). > In my opinion the name "surf" is just made for a project like this. > And I want to

Re: [dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-27 Thread Anselm R Garbe
2010/1/27 Enno Boland (Gottox) : > The name "surf" of my browser has derived directly from one of the > first proof of concept I wrote. Unfortunally cassmodiah from the > fedora project pointed out, that there are some other projects that > are also named "surf". > > - surf.sourceforge.net That pr

[dev] [surf] projects with the same name

2010-01-27 Thread Enno Boland (Gottox)
Hi everyone! The name "surf" of my browser has derived directly from one of the first proof of concept I wrote. Unfortunally cassmodiah from the fedora project pointed out, that there are some other projects that are also named "surf". - surf.sourceforge.net - and some other software, which isn't