Re: clarification of package naming guidelines

2016-12-07 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Dave Love wrote: > > Who are most people? > > Users of the software, for whom I'm packaging stuff. I get the > impression some people don't think they're very relevant, and I > increasingly come across things which make life hard supporting them. > > > Nobody is c

Re: clarification of package naming guidelines

2016-12-07 Thread Dave Love
"Gerald B. Cox" writes: > On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 3:30 AM, Dave Love wrote: > >> >> Why are most people going to use superlu-dist when that's not the proper >> name of the software? I'm not familiar with a SuperLU user community, >> but I think I can speak about DL_POLY as a DL veteran; I packag

Re: clarification of package naming guidelines

2016-12-05 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 3:30 AM, Dave Love wrote: > > Why are most people going to use superlu-dist when that's not the proper > name of the software? I'm not familiar with a SuperLU user community, > but I think I can speak about DL_POLY as a DL veteran; I packaged it as > "dl_poly" and wouldn't

Re: clarification of package naming guidelines

2016-12-05 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 05/12/16 11:30 +, Dave Love wrote: Why are most people going to use superlu-dist when that's not the proper name of the software? I'm not familiar with a SuperLU user community, but I think I can speak about DL_POLY as a DL veteran; I packaged it as "dl_poly" and wouldn't expect people to

Re: clarification of package naming guidelines

2016-12-05 Thread Dave Love
Thanks for the comments. "Gerald B. Cox" writes: > On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Mattia Verga > wrote: > >> >> So, in my opinion, you did it right naming your package "superlu_dist". >> For sure, you MUST not use uppercase letters. > > > I believe there is a bit of leeway for the packager her

Re: clarification of package naming guidelines

2016-12-01 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Mattia Verga wrote: > > So, in my opinion, you did it right naming your package "superlu_dist". > For sure, you MUST not use uppercase letters. I believe there is a bit of leeway for the packager here. You SHOULD not use uppercase; it isn't an edict - it's a gui

Re: clarification of package naming guidelines

2016-12-01 Thread Mattia Verga
Il 01/12/2016 13:35, Dave Love ha scritto: Could someone clarify the rules on package naming ? Background: I've packaged something its author calls SuperLU_DIST using the rpm n

clarification of package naming guidelines

2016-12-01 Thread Dave Love
Could someone clarify the rules on package naming ? Background: I've packaged something its author calls SuperLU_DIST using the rpm name superlu_dist. I interpreted that as cons