[Spice-devel] snappy name conflict

[Luis de Bethencourt]

Thanks Marc-Andre :)

I do think this is the best solution. Less intrusive for linux desktop
users.

When is the next release of spice-gtk planned to happen?

Regards,
Luis


On 5 April 2013 15:08, Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Luis de Bethencourt <
> luis at debethencourt.com> 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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