Simon Hobson wrote: > > > I've been thinking about this on and off, and one twisted logic > process says you should call the new package Shorewall2 ! At the > moment we have 'Shorewall' version 3.4.2, the new package would be > 'Shorewall2' version 1.<something>. > > I don't think that would be any less confusing than between > Shorewall4 and Shorewall version 4 should the current version get a > major update. I can think of a few commercial packages that have done > something similar - going from 'X version 2.3' to 'X2 version 1.0'. > > > Better would be to avoid numeric suffixes that can be confused with > version numbers, and if you don't like '-ng', how about '-new' ? > shorewall-new in the same way as we have amavis-new. new-shorewall > (or any other prefix) would be bad as it then wouldn't sort adjacent > to shorewall when browsing package lists.
One point that keeps getting lost here is that the package that we are trying to name is an add-on to Shorewall; it does not replace Shorewall and you can't use it by itself (you must install it AND Shorewall). So something like shorewall-perl appeals to me. - The new package includes Perl modules for parsing the various Shorewall configuration files. - It includes a compiler built on top of those modules. Shorewall will still work (and continue to work in future versions) if you don't install the new package (although most new features are likely to be added only in the new package). Eventually, I might break Shorewall into three pieces: - shorewall-common - shorewall-shell - shorewall-perl -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key
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