Re: Adding a "Perm" category
| From: | Richard Heyes | Date: | Mon, 07 Oct 2002 11:26:14 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Adding a "Perm" category | ||
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> > A category called Perm? Was this really agreed upon? This is a very bad
> > category name IMO.
>
> Well, at least this was the category name that everyone agreed on to use
> in CVS ("Perm_Liveuser"). I don´t particularly like it either.
> Of course we could use another category for the package release but then
> why use "Perm" in CVS in the first place?
Looking through the archives I could only find two real advocates of Perm.
> > IMO LiveUser would be best placed in Auth. Also, considering that the
> > website has the fuller title of "Authentication", I think this would
> > be most peoples first port of call when looking for Authentication,
> > User management, or Authorisation code (not that most people would
> > make a particularly big distinction between any of those...).
>
> I´d like that much better, too. But I wouldn´t really like to change the
> name in CVS as if I´m correct this is only possible by removing the
> whole directory tree and adding it again under a new name - which would
> mean losing CVS history?
Like Arnaud already mentioned, this can be done without losing the history.
Martin: You can do this yes?
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Richard Heyes