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[Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Marc Deslauriers
<marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 13-10-10 04:07 PM, Martin Albisetti wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> It's been an exciting month in the click appstore. The contest really
>> put all our assumptions to the test and had us on our feet fixing and
>> improving things left and right.
>> We still have a while to go, but things are looking smoother every day.
>>
>> One thing that became obvious very quickly was that verifying custom
>> namespaces (com.yourdomain) is painful and hard to automate. It also
>> adds little or no value to users and developers.
>> I was wondering if we shouldn't just lock everyone into a
>> com.ubuntu.developer.* namespace, and keep custom namespaces for
>> specific exceptions (maybe for specific large companies and other
>> special cases).
>>
>> Any thoughts on this?
>>
>
> I would simply stop verifying them, but not force people to use a specific
> namespace.
>

+1.

> AFAIK, other things that use a similar namespace approach don't actually verify
> them either.
>

Correct. As I understand it, namespacing is just a way to ensure
unique naming in a way that is easy to understand and easily works
together with check for (in)equality on a pure string level.

Thomas

> Marc.
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