Naming for the Ubuntu Download Manager interface

[Mike Sheldon]

Sorry, that was my entire point, I guess I should have expanded on it a
bit. I agree with ubuntu-download-manager as a name, since that's the
name developers will be interacting with if they're using our SDK. For
example under QML they're importing Ubuntu.DownloadManager and the C++
namespace is Ubuntu::DownloadManager. So the interface being named
ubuntu-download-manager seems perfectly natural to me (in fact this was
the initial name I proposed for it, before it was suggested that
download-manager might be a better name).

On Wed, 2017-01-18 at 13:22 -0200, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> The second part of the point was cut out. Can you please at least let
> us know how you feel about it, so we can be in sync about the right
> decision.
> 
> On Jan 18, 2017 1:02 PM, "Mike Sheldon" <michael.sheldon at canonical.co
> m> wrote:
> ubuntu-download-manager makes sense as a name to me, especially as
> it's
> one of the APIs in the Ubuntu SDK.
> 
> On Wed, 2017-01-18 at 12:34 -0200, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> >
> > The real issue with download-manager is that it's too general. We
> all
> > have several download managers in our systems, so this gives no
> hint
> > of what it's really talking about.
> >
> > We can call it ubuntu-download-manager if that's how the software
> was
> > named. Note that part of the rationale of having unity8-contacts
> and
> > unity8-calendar named like that was that these interfaces are
> likely
> > to change in meaningful and incompatible ways in the near future.
> If
> > the download manager is going to be bundled with unity8, it may be
> > wise to do the same. We can always introduce a more general
> interface
> > later.. not so nice to get out of a general interface that doesn't
> > work.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Mike Sheldon <michael.sheldon at can
> on
> > ical.com> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > >  Currently the interface for UDM (Ubuntu Download Manager) has
> been
> > > named unity8-download-manager. It's my understanding that whilst
> we
> > > might initially be bundling UDM within the unity8 snap to make
> the
> > > first stages of development easier (e.g. so it can talk directly
> to
> > > unity8's transfer indicator), the long term plan would be for it
> to
> > > be
> > > available separately.
> > >
> > >  Having UDM permanently tied to unity8 would seem to add a strong
> > > disincentive for app developers to make use of it at all, as
> their
> > > apps
> > > would then no-longer be portable across different desktop
> > > environments.
> > >
> > >  As such, I'm wondering if the naming of this interface is
> perhaps
> > > misleading?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >  Mike
> > >
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