Well, if he has updated it to make it compile, it is still in a maintained state. It shows the developer(s) is(are) still interrested at providing their software. The very least we have to (and a strong emphasise on the "have to") is to speak with him(them) before even pushing much further the possibility of reusing the name.
PierreSt On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:05 PM, C. Boemann <c...@boemann.dk> wrote: > On Monday 21 November 2011 14:58:18 you wrote: > > On 11/21/2011 02:03 PM, C. Boemann wrote: > > > On Monday 21 November 2011 13:50:38 Pierre Stirnweiss wrote: > > >>>> 1. Abacus (Condorcet winner: wins contests with all other choices) > > >>> > > >>> Even if it won the competition it is a bad choice as there is > already a > > >>> spreadsheet application out there with this name. See > > >>> http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/deskutils/abacus.html > > >>> > > >>> If there is already a spreadsheet application with this name, then > this > > >>> is > > >> > > >> an absolute no-go for me. How would we feel if some other project was > > >> developping an application suite with: > > >> YetAnotherApplicationSuite Words: text processor > > >> YAAS Stage: presentation > > >> YAAS Kexi: DB > > >> YAAS Krita: painting > > >> .... > > >> > > >> Don't do others what you wouldn't want to be done to you. > > >> > > >> My 2 cts, > > >> > > >> PierreSt > > > > > > except that that other Abacus has been dead for 14 years or so > > > > 1) It's in the openSuse and Ubuntu repos. > > 2) The last change in the changelog at > > > http://pkgs.org/opensuse-11.4/opensuse-contrib-i586/xabacus-7.4.1-1.2.i586 > . > > rpm.html is from 2008 what makes it 3 years old and not 14. > > 3) The last change in the changelog at > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xabacus/+changelog is from 2011 > > what means it's still activly developed. > > > > In any case I think that are exactly the reasons why we should have a > > discussion at the mailinglist before. > Take a closer look at the changelog at: > http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/deskutils/abacus.html > > It's quite clear it has only been updated to make it compile - no active > development. > _______________________________________________ > calligra-devel mailing list > calligra-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel >
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