Top-level package names, UX questions

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

I wasn't part of the original conversation, but it sounds like this would
be equivalent to having a single global namespace, except we are allowed to
override anybody else's names at will, which is unfriendly. In other words,
when we add a package X, we put any existing applications previously named
X in trouble.

Whatever scheme we choose, at the end people should be able to pick an
identifier without being concerned about future unintended conflicts.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On 16/03/15 08:22, Michael Vogt wrote:
> > 4) We also have the option that the package name in the
> > meta/package.yaml is the name in the store. So either "apache.beuno"
> > or "apache". That of course means that in order for a package to
> > become a top-level namespace package it needs to be re-uploaded once
> > with the new name "apache" and there is no automatic transition
>
> The package.developer namespace allows us to have many versions of the
> same package from different developers installed at the same time.
>
> This will almost certainly not work for frameworks, however, which are
> typically mediating a shared resource between apps.
>
> So, if we can't guarantee that you can always have package.dev-a and
> package.dev-b co-installed, perhaps it would be better not to allow that
> altogether? If we said you can ONLY have one version of "package"
> installed on a system at a time, lots of things get easier ("it's always
> just apache.command") and some things get harder ("you can't have both
> the mainline and a sideline version installed at the same time").
>
> I'm leaning towards saying that developer versions would conflict with
> mainline versions - for a device, pick one or the other. I can't
> recalled why we went the other way, now, in prior discussions. Could
> someone remind me of the rationale, or make the case from first
> principles, for having both "apache" and "apache.beuno" installed on the
> same device at the same time?
>
> Mark
>
>
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