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Michael Koch wrote: | On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 01:13:23PM -0600, Jerry Haltom wrote: [...] |>I would like to name the secondary native packages with a -jbi prefix |>(Java Binary Interface). Some people like the name -bcabi because that |>is what the GCJ folks tend to refer to it as. BC ABI: Binary Compatible |>Application Binary Interface. I don't think bcabi is descriptive at all. | | | -jbi is a bad name as none else on this planet knows the interface under | this name I would prefer -bcabi (as this is the name its called | upstream) or -gcj (to make clean where it comes from). [...] If upstream already has a name, we should adhere to that. We can't reinvent the technical terminology of upstream sources because we don't like it; that's what Microsoft is for.
8^) - -- Barry Hawkins All Things Computed site: www.alltc.com weblog: www.yepthatsme.com
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