From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-11-18T18:50:46+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] rpa-base 0.2.3

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 02:55:29PM +0900, Matt Armstrong wrote:
> > Since your new major version is going to be completely incompatible
> > with the previous ones, I think it would make sense to do the
> > equivalent to a soname change, that is, something like
> >
> >   require 'rubymail'    ==>   require 'rubymail1'
> 
> That's exactly it.
> 
>     require 'rmail' ==> require 'rubymail'
>     RMail::Message  ==> RubyMail::Message
> 
> This rename is somewhat random, but rectifies something I think I got
> wrong from the start (not matching the package name with the package's
> module name space). 

mmm RubyMail was packaged as rubymail (not *rmail*); how should I name
the new one?

> It also marks the beginning of what I plan to be
> another active and comparably unstable phase of RubyMail development,
> so it makes some sense to do this now.

Yes, looks like the perfect occasion for a "soname change".

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