"Bazaar" - cleaned-up naming and branding

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Tue Aug 1 21:06:34 BST 2006


Martin Pool wrote:
>     "The naming of cats is a difficult matter"
> 
> Because of this project's genesis in baz[*], branding and naming has
> been a bit unclear in the past.  Now we have a new web site and shiny
> logo it's also a good time to clean up the naming.  The project is
> "Bazaar", and the command is "bzr".
> 
>   http://bazaar-vcs.org/Branding
> 

One place I just came across the old name, which has more serious
ramifications for upgrading is Testaments. They currently use:

    long_header = 'bazaar-ng testament version 1\n'
    short_header = 'bazaar-ng testament short form 1\n'

I don't know when we want to upgrade this to 'bazaar testament version X\n'.

We should be able to support both version 1 and version 2. We already
support a StrictTestament. Which is currently format 2.1.

StrictTestament just adds 'last modified revision' and 'executable'
bits. last modified might not be important, but executable should
probably have been in Testament.

Anyway, I just came across it, so I thought I would mention it.

Doing a: grep -rniI "bazaar-ng" bzrlib

I see that Bazaar-NG also shows up in pretty much all of our format headers.

The only one that doesn't use them is 'bundles'. I think we had
discussed it, but realized that -NG really wasn't going to stay around
forever. (Unlike BzrNewError :)

John
=:->

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