Request for review/sponsor - NEdit

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri Jun 3 12:45:04 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 08:12 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 14:15 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> > I've finally got an updated NEdit SRPM whipped into shape (renamed from
> > NEdit per the guidelines in the Fedora Extras Wiki).  It can be found at
> > 
> >    http://home.comcast.net/~i.pilcher/NEdit-5.5-3.src.rpm
> 
> I don't understand why you've named this package "NEdit" rather than
> "nedit". The package naming guidelines at
> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageNamingGuidelines suggest to
> stick to lower case unless the upstream package uses upper case, which
> is not the case for either the tarball name or the installed binary?
> 
> Also, the package has historically been known as "nedit" in earlier
> Fedora Core and Red Hat releases

I agree, there is no reason to rename this. Please put it back to
"nedit". :)

~spot
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