Naming for the Ubuntu Download Manager interface

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Sorry for not being clear. In addition to the suggestion about
ubuntu-download-manager, I also wrote this:

"Note that part of the rationale of having unity8-contacts and
unity8-calendar named like that was that these interfaces are likely to
change in meaningful and incompatible ways in the near future. If the
download manager is going to be bundled with unity8, it may be wise to do
the same. We can always introduce a more general interface later.. not so
nice to get out of a general interface that doesn't work."

What's your take on it?



On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Mike Sheldon <michael.sheldon at canonical.com
> wrote:

> Sorry, that was my entire point, I guess I should have expanded on it a
> bit. I agree with ubuntu-download-manager as a name, since that's the
> name developers will be interacting with if they're using our SDK. For
> example under QML they're importing Ubuntu.DownloadManager and the C++
> namespace is Ubuntu::DownloadManager. So the interface being named
> ubuntu-download-manager seems perfectly natural to me (in fact this was
> the initial name I proposed for it, before it was suggested that
> download-manager might be a better name).
>
> On Wed, 2017-01-18 at 13:22 -0200, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> > The second part of the point was cut out. Can you please at least let
> > us know how you feel about it, so we can be in sync about the right
> > decision.
> >
> > On Jan 18, 2017 1:02 PM, "Mike Sheldon" <michael.sheldon at canonical.co
> > m> wrote:
> > ubuntu-download-manager makes sense as a name to me, especially as
> > it's
> > one of the APIs in the Ubuntu SDK.
> >
> > On Wed, 2017-01-18 at 12:34 -0200, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> > >
> > > The real issue with download-manager is that it's too general. We
> > all
> > > have several download managers in our systems, so this gives no
> > hint
> > > of what it's really talking about.
> > >
> > > We can call it ubuntu-download-manager if that's how the software
> > was
> > > named. Note that part of the rationale of having unity8-contacts
> > and
> > > unity8-calendar named like that was that these interfaces are
> > likely
> > > to change in meaningful and incompatible ways in the near future.
> > If
> > > the download manager is going to be bundled with unity8, it may be
> > > wise to do the same. We can always introduce a more general
> > interface
> > > later.. not so nice to get out of a general interface that doesn't
> > > work.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Mike Sheldon <michael.sheldon at can
> > on
> > > ical.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > >  Currently the interface for UDM (Ubuntu Download Manager) has
> > been
> > > > named unity8-download-manager. It's my understanding that whilst
> > we
> > > > might initially be bundling UDM within the unity8 snap to make
> > the
> > > > first stages of development easier (e.g. so it can talk directly
> > to
> > > > unity8's transfer indicator), the long term plan would be for it
> > to
> > > > be
> > > > available separately.
> > > >
> > > >  Having UDM permanently tied to unity8 would seem to add a strong
> > > > disincentive for app developers to make use of it at all, as
> > their
> > > > apps
> > > > would then no-longer be portable across different desktop
> > > > environments.
> > > >
> > > >  As such, I'm wondering if the naming of this interface is
> > perhaps
> > > > misleading?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >  Mike
> > > >
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