binaries of bzr

[Ian Clatworthy]

Martin Pool wrote:
> On 7/13/07, Wouter van Heyst <larstiq at larstiq.dyndns.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 04:49:55PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> > > Well, the other thing would be to rename bazaar to baz and then
>> bzr to bazaar.
>> >
>> > Do we want bzr->bazaar? why not keep bzr bzr because the tool that
>> > people are installing is in fact 'bzr'. I'd suggest that we reserve
>> > 'bazaar' for some meta-package that can bring in GUI's, extensions etc
>> > etc.

Changing bazaar -> baz is most urgent; bzr -> bazaar has much less
priority in my mind. I liked the suggestion (Robert's?) of keeping
bazaar for a meta-package name later.

> It's ok with me to keep it as bzr.  Maybe we should rename bazaar to
> baz though?  Also the description currently says
> 
> Description: arch-based distributed revision control system
> GNU Arch is a revision control system with features that are ideal for
[snip]
> Unless you have a pressing reason to use bazaar you should use some other
> revision control system as upstream development has ceased.
> .
> Homepage: http://bazaar.canonical.com/
> 
> and I'd rather we specifically pointed people at bzr.

I ran into this yesterday and felt the same thing. I ran into it because
I went to install 'config-manager' (which we recommend until nested
trees is ready for prime time) using synaptic and it wanted to install
both bzr and bazaar (baz).

> Also that homepage just redirects to the bzr home page, which may
> cause some confusion.  Maybe it should point to a landing page
> explaining about baz and how to migrate?

That would be better.

Ian C.