Build Debate: Followup on Build Naming

[Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos]

The prefix is much longer than the actual information that the name is 
supposed to provide ;-)

p.

Walter Bender wrote:
> True. How about OLPC-Fedora.1, ...
>
> -walter
>
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
>   
>> hmm, Sugar aims to be available as an alternative desktop in all kinds
>>  of linux distros, so would be a bad name for an OLPC-made distro.
>>
>>  Tomeu
>>
>>
>>
>>  On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  > This discussion reminds me of a favorite puzzle from Douglas Hofstadter
>>  >
>>  >  0, 1, 2, 3, 720!, ...
>>  >
>>  >  That is a numbering scheme with lots of headroom.
>>  >
>>  >  I agree that OLPC is the wrong name. There are reports that the
>>  >  software is now running, for example, on a Classmate PC. So any direct
>>  >  tie to OLPC is not necessarily appropriate. Maybe Sugar? something
>>  >  else? But there is not much simpler than 1,2,3...
>>  >
>>  >  -walter
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >  On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Paul Fox <pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us> wrote:
>>  >  > walter wrote:
>>  >  >   >
>>  >  >   > I'm in favor of Dennis's suggestion. OLPC-1; OLPC-2, ... It is simple
>>  >  >   > and, I argue, unambiguous. The hardware is XO-1, XO-2...
>>  >  >
>>  >  >  as perhaps more of an outsider here, i'd say that this is not
>>  >  >  "unambiguous".  people with the laptops regularly refer to them
>>  >  >  as "my OLPC" -- perhaps encouraged by the unfortunate "PC" in the
>>  >  >  acronym.
>>  >  >
>>  >  >  as for numbers:  sequential is good, but starting higher than 1 might
>>  >  >  give room for adding structure later if necessary.  (e.g. the 200 series
>>  >  >  of releases might be a break from the 100 series.)
>>  >  >
>>  >  >  paul
>>  >  >  =---------------------
>>  >  >   paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's  degrees)
>>  >  >
>>  >  >
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Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
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