On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 07:18:13AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
Frank Heckenbach writes:
I've put a new version of GP with the minor changes discussed here at http://gnu-pascal.de/contrib/frank/misc/gp-0.55.tar.gz.
looking at
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=%2Fgp&searchm...
I find another gp program. Renaming it to gpm is worse, pmake is the NetBSD make, what about gpmake?
Is this a problem? Short abbreviations tend to duplicate. Even the name GPC is used in other projects:
Guile Python Compiler (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gpc/)
General Polygon Clipper library (http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/alan/software/)
General Purpose Converter (http://freshmeat.net/projects/kgpc/)
GNOME Photo Collector (http://gpc.sourceforge.net/)
There is a problem if two packages try to install a file with the same name. Concerning GPC: it is mostly problem for projects you mention since Gnu Pascal is already there (note that GNOME Photo Collector according to web site changed name for installed files to `gphotocoll').
With gp situation is different: I was using gp/pari from time to time in last 8 years (rarely enough that I did not remember about name conflict) and the project is probably older.
By the way, short names looks like a suicide in Google times (try to find out what 'V' or 'M' is :).