What to do about libc-client (imap)?

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Mon Sep 20 10:12:16 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 01:02 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 09:58:04PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> > >Proposed Option #1: Rename libc-client to imap-libs
> > Any reason not to call it uwimap-libs? Why should it get premier naming as 
> > implementor of IMAP? (I realize it's a reference implementation of the 
> > protocol by the protocol's author, but we don't call BIND "dns".)
> 
> we call Apache "httpd". :)

Yes. But calling that 'apache-httpd' wouldn't cause people to run
screaming from the building instead of actually _using_ it.

Whereas calling this 'uwimap-libs' instead of just 'imap-libs' probably
_would_ have that effect. Which is probably a good thing for all
concerned.

-- 
dwmw2





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