On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 06:14:07PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > > * Package name    : dav
> > > >   Version         : 0.8.0 
> > > >   Upstream Author : David Gucwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > * URL             : http://www.some.org/
> 
> This name is very much in conflict with widespread use of Distributed
> Authoring and Versioning (RFC2518, aka WEBDAV).  For example:

I know dav and webdav, and btw I sent only an RFP. :)
 
> libapache-mod-dav - A DAV module for Apache
> libapache2-dav-svn - Apache module for Subversion - in development, alpha
> libhttp-dav-perl - HTTP:DAV - WebDAV client library for Perl.
> python-davlib - WebDAV client library for Python
> sitecopy - A program for managing a WWW site via FTP, DAV or HTTP
> xsitecopy - A program for managing a WWW site via FTP, DAV or HTTP(GNOME 
> version)
> 
> A name change would be a small but significant contribution to the
> namespace.

Maybe... but I'm not so sure because DAV is the name of the editor... 
Do you have suggestion?

However... there's no ITP yet! :)

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