[Bug 250040] Review Request: new - A simple template system

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Summary: Review Request: new - A simple template system


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250040





------- Additional Comments From rc040203 at freenet.de  2007-10-02 01:49 EST -------
(In reply to comment #16)

>The objection regarding the configure/check warning is more appropriate to be
>submitted as a bug against new. I fail to see why this would be relevant to
>approving the package, other than violating Ralf's personal preferences. The
>message clearly says "warning," so it is obviously not fatal.

A configure script's warning normally indicates that a package is missing
something which will cause it to functionally regress. 

With you seemingly being the upstream, I would have expected you to improve this
rpm or to improve upstream's sources.

> As far as the name, new has been in development since 1999. It has been
> included
> in several distributions, including Fedora (I am only resubmitting it because
> the package was orphaned).
Shipped by you, seeminly maintained in Fedora by you.
Last patch applied to CVS on 2007-08-14 by you, submitted for review by you on
2007-07-29, ... ?!?

> No one has complained about the name until now. 
Well, the package name is non-critical.

What is critical is shipping /usr/include/new and /usr/bin/new. This is very
likely to clash with future development out of your control. 

To put it bluntly: It's a short-sighted design. 

I am inclined to think you only have been lucky to not see your package clash
with other packages, because all other developers in 30 years of *nix history
have avoided to implement "new" and thereby left a gap which you now are jumping
into.


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