brew package conflict with PCP - Perfomance CoPilot

[ciphernaut]

the package entry in brew conflicts with Performance CoPilot.

See https://github.com/performancecopilot/pcp/blob/main/INSTALL.md "section 2. Mac OS X Installation" for more information.

[natoscott]

This is unfortunate - the package name conflict is going to exist on all Linux distributions as well, where the other PCP has been around for some 20+ years.

[ciphernaut]

Seems to be an issue with other package managers as well as per #11

[dennis-tra]

Hey hey, yup this is really unfortunate because I actually liked the name. I hope this has not caused a lot of trouble on your side as managing dependencies can often be a pain. I have not yet come around to actually changing it - if the only alternative is a change in the name my current favorite alternative would be peercp as suggested by @AmberCronin in the other issue.

Would you know another sensible way forward that would not require a change in the name? If not, would you have other naming suggestions?

[ciphernaut]

I am not familiar enough with the brew landscape to comment on how to achieve that.

'peercp' does appear that it would alleviate namespace clashes via brew and other in other packaging formats such as rpm.

[natoscott]

regarding rpms, this is the official advice for handling package name clashes in Fedora - and hence CentOS/RHEL, as downstream projects:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Conflicts#Conflicting_Package_Names

[decentral1se]

go-pcp on the distro side? pcp is a rad name.

[safeercm]

Hi Dennis, I second the name peercp, is it possible to change the name?

Thanks

[dhalucario]

Hi, I'd like to propose "pcpft"
pcp => peer copy
ft => file transfer

In my opinion that makes it easier to remember the name since thats what you wanna do.

[dennis-tra]

I am (with the help of @optman 👏) preparing a new version that will support decentralized hole punching. This will probably/hopefully vastly improve transfer speeds as two peers in their home networks will be able to directly connect to each other (as opposed to routing the traffic through a relay). Before releasing this new version I'll figure out a solution for this naming clash 👍

[natoscott]

@dennis-tra thanks!!!

[natoscott]

@dennis-tra hi - any news on this one? We have folks working on updating the pcp.io Mac port and they'll no doubt encounter this issue in the weeks ahead. Many thanks!

[safeercm]

@dennis-tra any traction on this? a resolution on this would really help. Thanks in advance!

[q9f]

Hi Dennis, thank you for your talk at libp2p day.

What about p2cp? :)