[geeklog-devel] Regarding the name change of Geeklog.

[Michael Tutty]

I actually suggested that, too.  Tony's right - all's well that ends well.
    M.

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Trinity <trinity93 at gmail.com> wrote:


> i would have just used altitude that way there isnt any posable conection

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> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com> wrote:

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>> The compromise made is AptitudeCMS.

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>> --Tony

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>> ----- Original Message ----

>> From: Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com>

>> To: Geeklog Development <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>

>> Sent: Tuesday, July 1, 2008 9:21:02 AM

>> Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Regarding the name change of Geeklog.

>>

>> Just an FYI I'm talking to Daniel off-list but will get any updates to you

>> guys.

>>

>> --Tony

>>

>> ----- Original Message ----

>> From: Daniel Burrows <dburrows at debian.org>

>> To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

>> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 10:26:45 PM

>> Subject: [geeklog-devel] Regarding the name change of Geeklog.

>>

>>  Hello list,

>>

>>  I am the author and maintainer of the aptitude frontend to the apt

>> package management system.  apt is a common backend used to install

>> software on Debian GNU/Linux systems and systems derived from Debian

>> (such as Ubuntu and Xandros).  aptitude is a frontend to apt that

>> provides terminal and command-line interfaces to apt, with a GTK+

>> graphical interface in development.  The Web page of aptitude is

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>>    http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude<http://algebraicthunk.net/%7Edburrows/projects/aptitude>

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>>  While as a free software author I have no way of quantifying how many

>> users I have, aptitude is a part of the default Debian installation and

>> appears to be the preferred package manager of many users of Debian and

>> related systems.

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>>

>>  As you might have guessed by now, I'm writing to you because I

>> just learned that you've decided to rename your software to

>> "aptitude"; see, for instance, this mailing list post:

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>> http://eight.pairlist.net/pipermail/geeklog-devel/2008-June/003639.html

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>>  I'm writing to make you aware of the fact that this name is already

>> in use (for eight years now) by a piece of software that is moderately

>> popular, and is probably even used by some of the same people who use

>> Geeklog.  This name change will lead to confusion and namespace

>> difficulties for our users; please don't inflict that on them.  I'm

>> sure that there are plenty of perfectly fine names for your software

>> that don't step on the names of established free software programs.

>>

>>    Thanks,

>>  Daniel

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