From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1FWPof-0000cN-6g for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:26:49 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWPod-0000az-MR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:26:47 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWPoc-0000Z8-7G for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:26:47 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWPoc-0000Yt-2g for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:26:46 -0400 Received: from [212.85.152.101] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FWPpr-0006sH-1g for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:28:03 -0400 Received: from kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com (kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com [212.85.152.101]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C4DC3C00628E for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:43:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [??1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112893C00628A for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:43:18 +0200 (CEST) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:26:43 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200604200436.04740.okuji@enbug.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604200526.43870.okuji@enbug.org> X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.491261, version=0.17.2 Subject: Re: grub cvs ... configfile X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:26:47 -0000 On Thursday 20 April 2006 04:53, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > Offering multiple commands that do the same thing is not a good design > philosphy, and from the other comments on this subject I know I'm not > alone in that belief. No offense, but I don't think one developer > liking it is a good enough reason. I'm not alone, either. I have talked about this with my collegue in PUPA, and he agreed with me. I'd like to know why it is a bad phylosophy. In many systems, aliases are often provided for convenience. Look at test and [. Look at true and :. Short cuts are also a kind of aliases. I don't see anything wrong with this. "There should be only one way to do a thing" is Python's phylosophy, but Perl developers wouldn't agree with you. Of course, "I like it" is not a good reason. But menuentry is too long to type. This is good enough for me. Okuji