Re: snappy name conflict

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Hi!

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Luis de Bethencourt <luis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello everybody :)

After 2 years of slow development snappy 0.3 is out, and it has picked up the interest of the Fedora packagers. The problem is that the snappy executable name conflicts with spice-gtk.

In Fedora /usr/bin/snappy is owned by spice-gtk
in debian/gentoo /usr/bin/snappy is owned by snappy the video player.

http://projects.gnome.org/snappy/

Having either renamed is equally inconvenient.

So this decision is a matter of what is better for linux users. Having /usr/bin/snappy be a spice-gtk snapshot tool or a video player?

What do you guys think?

Although snappy in spice-gtk predates snappy player by about 6 months, I think the usefulness (and hype) of the second is obvious.

spice-gtk snappy is mainly useful in scripts for testing, so users will need to adapt their script, or change they environment somehow (aliases or whats not). I don't this it's a major issue. But if somebody is concerned, raise your voice quickly.

I suggest for upcoming release to rename snappy to something like snappy-spice (that would be easy enough to discover when completing for ex)


regards
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