Re: [swarm-hackers] Swarm in debian/ubuntu

[Scott Christley]

On Sep 25, 2008, at 12:57 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:

> I'm curious to know if you will want to call your package "libswarm"
> rather than "swarm".

Didn't think about it until you mentioned it, was thinking just  
"swarm" but there does seem a convention to use "lib" when its a  
library.  Looking further though we might want to consider different  
Swarm variations, especially considering the different GUIs and such,  
for example:

swarm-core
swarm-tcl/tk/blt
swarm-gnustep
swarm-java

But then maybe this is going overkill, I think swarm-core is a good  
idea (i.e. the non-gui pieces) because that could make it simple for  
putting Swarm on cluster machines without getting X Windows and etc.  
pulled in.

It needs to be figured out how to handle different GUI front-ends, and  
how to allow them to co-exist on the same system without conflicting  
with each other.  I guess the simplest way is to have all the GUI  
pieces in a separate library.

cheers
Scott