Re: [Xen-API] opam package renames

[Jon Ludlam <jonathan.ludlam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/09/14 15:47, Dave Scott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As xapi starts to stabilise I’d like to refresh the ‘opam’ packages. Ideally 
> we’d push the packages upstream in the master repo, and then we’d benefit 
> from community activity such as
>
> * bulk builds for different distros and architectures
> * greater exposure to our stuff via the existing websites full of docs etc
>
> Looking at the current packages[1] we have a bit of a naming problem :) I’d 
> like to propose some renames, to apply the following principles:
>
> 0. if something is usable separately and has a nice interface then give it a 
> globally-meaningful name. For example “nbd” for NBD protocol; “vhd-format” 
> for the vhd file format; etc
>
> 1. the prefix ‘xcp’ is old and confusing: replace with ‘xapi’. When we talk 
> about xcp we usually mean the “xapi daemons”
>
> 2. where a name sounds general but the code is a bit specific, prefix with 
> ‘xapi-‘. I’m looking at you, (xapi-)stdext.
>
> How about the following (opam package) renames? Note no code will change 
> (although that might make sense too):
>
We should look over the buildroot package names to make sure they're not
inconsistent. I think we ought to make sure the code changes are
relatively high priority too.

Jon


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