Catalogue package naming

Earnie Boyd <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:32:42 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.devel
Message-ID <CA+sc5mmXBJ98b1nKX86va_x71A81u-kDjnfKW5PxARAzsPV+UA@mail.gmail.com>
Now that I've started working with the mingw-dist catalogue system and
understanding some nuances and such I'm going to suggest something
that will help with affiliate package naming for the GUI.

What I'm thinking is a categorical package naming system.  Using
package foo as an example I'm thinking that we could have a
mingw32-current-foo package a mingw32-previous-foo package and a
mingw32-history-foo package.  The history package would contain all
the packages older than previous.  I am also thinking that we have
package names of mingw32-current-ancillary-foo, etc where the
mingw-current-foo would contain the primary binary files and the
ancillary package would contain the documentation and other
non-required files for the binary package.  By doing this we can
present the user with a better GUI presentation based on the affiliate
grouping.

Thoughts?

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