From kde-edu-devel Wed Jul 30 20:45:12 2014 From: Peter Hedlund Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 20:45:12 +0000 To: kde-edu-devel Subject: Re: libkeduvocdocument name Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-edu-devel&m=140675314114588 Ah, that sounds great. The main reason for not having done such archives in= the past is that with images and sounds they can grow fairly large. But th= at is probably less of an issue nowadays. I say go for it. Peter On Jul 30, 2014, at 1:41 PM, Jeremy Whiting wrote: > Peter, > = > You make a good point. Actually the name being old isn't the only > reason to change it. There are two reasons. One is that > libkeduvocdocument is quite a mouthful. But the more important one is > that in the future we plan to update the library to use a new file > format. The technical details haven't been ironed out completely yet, > but ideally we want the xml and any accompanying image and sound files > to be included within one compressed file (most likely zip) for > simpler uploading, downloading, and sharing of vocabulary files. A bit > of work has been done looking at existing file formats and standards, > but nothing has been set in stone yet (or in code either) and I'd like > the change to be gradual rather than all at once if we can. However > since libkeduvocdocument has it's own git repository now I'd like to > have a name for the git repository and the library to begin with, it > will be much harder to rename the git repository or library after we > have a few releases with the long libkeduvocdocument name. > = > BR, > Jeremy > = > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Peter Hedlund = wrote: >> Hello, >> = >> Not that I am going to argue one way or other since I am not very involv= ed these days, but it seems that if the only reason for a change is that th= e name is old then I don=92t see the point. It appears your real issue is w= ith the kvtml extension but changing that would confuse existing users. >> = >> Thanks, >> Peter >> = >> On Jul 30, 2014, at 1:13 PM, Jeremy Whiting wrote: >> = >>> Hey all, >>> = >>> IRC has been a bit quiet the past few days since I got back from my >>> vacation, so I thought I'd give the mailing list a try. >>> libkeduvocdocument needs a new name. the current name (and new git >>> repo) are old, kvoctrain has been renamed to Parley for quite a long >>> time. kvtml derives it's name from kvoctrain, so doesn't make a lot of >>> sense going forward. A couple of weeks ago a discussion on irc led to >>> the suggestion of liblexikon which is a swedish word for dictionary >>> from what I understand (and is close enough to other latin based words >>> to be recognizable also). >>> = >>> So I propose to rename libkeduvocdocument (the library based on >>> frameworks and qt5, and the git repo itself) to liblexikon. If nobody >>> speaks up in the next week or so I'll make it happen. If anyone has a >>> better idea, speak now :) >>> = >>> thanks, >>> Jeremy >>> _______________________________________________ >>> kde-edu mailing list >>> kde-edu@mail.kde.org >>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-edu >> = >> _______________________________________________ >> kde-edu mailing list >> kde-edu@mail.kde.org >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-edu > _______________________________________________ > kde-edu mailing list > kde-edu@mail.kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-edu _______________________________________________ kde-edu mailing list kde-edu@mail.kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-edu