On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 09:43:07AM +0100, Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 08:55:14AM +0200, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
> > Grrrrr. So now I read the README and cannot find a sentence that
> > justifies App:: namespace.
Hmm.. now I see it myself.. (that's why I sent everything to the
modulelist ;)
> > This module traces any dynamically linked program for
> > filesystem-modifying calls such as rename, open64, unlink, remove
> > etc. It will save all the files before they were modified. It can
> > then undo and redo the changes as often as you want.
>
> This module sounds very much like something you would probbaly only
> use during development of an application. So Devel:: would seem to fit
I think Devel would be another total misnomer :( Where would you put RPM
into? I guess RPM is certainly more an archiver than a devel tool.
The problem with that module is that, at the moment, it is just some kind
of installation manager: you can install a new version of a program,
test it, and then revert the installation completely (unfortunately you
need glibc-2.1 at the moment, although it worked with almost any elf
system _except_ glibc2.1 some time ago. Given more bug-reports this would
certainly be fixed ;)
It might be that, in the distant future, it would become something like
ltrace (library call tracer), which might justify a rename, but it is very
far from that.
Just to clarify, you do:
# cd ~/sources/gimp
# appman -v install gimp make install
(test, uh-oh it's borken, restore the older version)
# appman -v swap gimp
(get rid of that broken new gimp)
# appman delete gimp
I am not entirely happy with File:: as well, but it might be better (at
the moment) than App:: indeed.
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