559028 - mozilla-central/netwerk should be mozilla-central/network

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Eric Appleman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a4pre) Gecko/20100407 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.7a4pre
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This one is pretty straightforward. A major folder has its name misspelled

hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/
cd mozilla-central/netwerk

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

It's not misspelled. ;)

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

Yeah this is intentional. I believe this has historical reasons because netwerk/ is a rewrite of older code in network/, so it needed a new name while the two directories co-existed. We could rename this, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort.

Comment 3

[Ethan Tseng [:ethan]]

This is a question mark to almost every newcomer to Mozilla.
(I thought it was misspelled once upon a time).
Perhaps we can put the historical reason somewhere, such as Necko's wiki page or FAQ. :)

Comment 4

[Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]]

(In reply to Ethan Tseng [:ethan] from comment #3)
> Perhaps we can put the historical reason somewhere, such as Necko's wiki
> page or FAQ. :)

its a wiki.. its a community project.. you seem to have an itch..

Comment 5

[Ethan Tseng [:ethan]]

You are right!  Because several people asked me the same question.
I'll edit the wiki to stop my itch. ;)