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Name clash with KiTTY: http://www.9bis.net/kitty/ http://www.9bis.net/kitty/ , terminal emulator, fork of PuTTY. It will be impossible to create package for bot

by lisivka 10y ago

Name clash with KiTTY: http://www.9bis.net/kitty/ http://www.9bis.net/kitty/ , terminal emulator, fork of PuTTY. It will be impossible to create package for both in official repos until name conflict will be resolved.

asymmetric 10y ago
Well, the kitty you mention only works on Windows, so what packages on official repos are we talking about?
- lisivka 10y ago
  It's opensource. PuTTY is ported to Linux and is already in Fedora official repo[1], so KiTTY can be ported to Linux too. [1]: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/putty/ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/putty/
ry4n413 10y ago
so what happens now, some sort of rap battle or fight to the death over who gets to keep the name?
rr- 10y ago
One idea is to s/K/T/ but it'll quickly get flamed into oblivion.
Nexxxeh 10y ago
Yeah, seems like a poor choice for a name given the similarity too. If it were a cat tracking app, it'd be forgivable, but this is ridiculous.
chriswarbo 10y ago
> It will be impossible to create package for both in official repos until name conflict will be resolved. Not really, if your package manager allows hierarchies then something like `network.kitty` and `x11.kitty` could be used. If they have to use the same namespace then names like `kitty-ssh` and `kitty-term` could be used. If you're installing binaries into a single location (e.g. /usr/bin) then they can either be left to conflict, or renamed by the packager (e.g. Debian renames task-spooler's `ts` to `tsp`, to avoid conflicting with moreutils' `ts` timestamp command). If packages are installed to independent locations (e.g. as in Nix and Guix) then there's no need to rename anything, although it might be nice to provide symlinks with unique names so that both can be used from the same $PATH.
hobarrera 10y ago
kitty isn't packaged for me, so a package in the official repos is still possible. It just depends on whether your distro packages the other kitty or not. --- Actually, scrub that: > KiTTY is only designed for the Microsoft® Windows® platform There's no name clash on any distro. Both kitties support different OS families.

by lisivka 10y ago

asymmetric 10y ago

Well, the kitty you mention only works on Windows, so what packages on official repos are we talking about?

lisivka 10y ago
It's opensource. PuTTY is ported to Linux and is already in Fedora official repo[1], so KiTTY can be ported to Linux too. [1]: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/putty/ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/putty/

ry4n413 10y ago

so what happens now, some sort of rap battle or fight to the death over who gets to keep the name?

rr- 10y ago

One idea is to s/K/T/ but it'll quickly get flamed into oblivion.

Nexxxeh 10y ago

Yeah, seems like a poor choice for a name given the similarity too. If it were a cat tracking app, it'd be forgivable, but this is ridiculous.

chriswarbo 10y ago

> It will be impossible to create package for both in official repos until name conflict will be resolved. Not really, if your package manager allows hierarchies then something like `network.kitty` and `x11.kitty` could be used. If they have to use the same namespace then names like `kitty-ssh` and `kitty-term` could be used. If you're installing binaries into a single location (e.g. /usr/bin) then they can either be left to conflict, or renamed by the packager (e.g. Debian renames task-spooler's `ts` to `tsp`, to avoid conflicting with moreutils' `ts` timestamp command). If packages are installed to independent locations (e.g. as in Nix and Guix) then there's no need to rename anything, although it might be nice to provide symlinks with unique names so that both can be used from the same $PATH.

hobarrera 10y ago

kitty isn't packaged for me, so a package in the official repos is still possible. It just depends on whether your distro packages the other kitty or not. --- Actually, scrub that: > KiTTY is only designed for the Microsoft® Windows® platform There's no name clash on any distro. Both kitties support different OS families.