Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Name Change

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5: Response to Name Change (response to 1)
Posted by Todd Gillespie on
Jerry, I'm going to have to argue against you on this point. Never do cosmetic mass-edits on working code just for political reasons. AOLserver didn't change all its functions from ns_ to aol_ when AOL bought Navisoft, did they? Besides the (non-trivial) problem of developers getting screwed by such an approach(hi! we renamed your API!), it's worth considering that the code has history in it - a highly specific record of a system's evolution. (The history is made all the more useful when you consider how the documentation is lacking...)