Re: ITP: water -- A graphical water effect demo.

Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I looked through the output of 'dpkg -l' on one of my systems and > > > saw very few packages with plain English names. > > > > And this is significant because ... ? > > Because it demonstrates that most people thing plain English > names are too g

Re: ITP: water -- A graphical water effect demo.

Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I looked through the output of 'dpkg -l' on one of my systems and > > > saw very few packages with plain English names. > > > > And this is significant because ... ? > > Because it demonstrates that most people thing plain English > names are too

Re: ITP: water -- A graphical water effect demo.

Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, so call it water-demo or waterdemo or something along those lines. > I looked through the output of 'dpkg -l' on one of my systems and > saw very few packages with plain English names. And this is significant because ... ? -Miles

Re: ITP: water -- A graphical water effect demo.

Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, so call it water-demo or waterdemo or something along those lines. > I looked through the output of 'dpkg -l' on one of my systems and > saw very few packages with plain English names. And this is significant because ... ? -Miles -- To UNSUBSC

Re: ITP: water -- A graphical water effect demo.

Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I disagree. The policy is to avoid namespace polution, which means > that package names should be as specific as possible. Imagine if > the first 26 packages were named a through z, just because they > could be and they were first come first served? I

Re: ITP: water -- A graphical water effect demo.

Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I disagree. The policy is to avoid namespace polution, which means > that package names should be as specific as possible. Imagine if > the first 26 packages were named a through z, just because they > could be and they were first come first served? I

Re: ITP: water -- A graphical water effect demo.

Josh Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another comment...perhaps you should change the name? water seems > very generic...maybe it's just me. I disagree; `water' seems like a great name. If it were a word that referred to common activity, then it might be considered too generic, but it's not.

Re: ITP: water -- A graphical water effect demo.

Josh Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another comment...perhaps you should change the name? water seems > very generic...maybe it's just me. I disagree; `water' seems like a great name. If it were a word that referred to common activity, then it might be considered too generic, but it's not.