From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Williams Subject: Re: Tool renames? was Re: First stab at glossary Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 10:26:33 +1000 Message-ID: <431B90B9.4000108@bigpond.net.au> References: <200509042143.j84LhDZo020359@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <7vmzmsbcuc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Horst von Brand , Daniel Barkalow , Tim Ottinger , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 05 02:26:54 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EC4ot-0007j8-9B for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 02:26:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932243AbVIEA0k (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Sep 2005 20:26:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932241AbVIEA0k (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Sep 2005 20:26:40 -0400 Received: from omta05ps.mx.bigpond.com ([144.140.83.195]:63855 "EHLO omta05ps.mx.bigpond.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932242AbVIEA0j (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Sep 2005 20:26:39 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (really [147.10.133.38]) by omta05ps.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20050905002634.OGSQ1454.omta05ps.mx.bigpond.com@[192.168.0.2]>; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 00:26:34 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7vmzmsbcuc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at omta05ps.mx.bigpond.com from [147.10.133.38] using ID pwil3058@bigpond.net.au at Mon, 5 Sep 2005 00:26:34 +0000 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > Horst von Brand writes: > > >>>3. Non-binaries are called '*-scripts'. >>> >>> In earlier discussions some people seem to like the >>> distinction between *-script and others; I did not >>> particularly like it, but I am throwing this in for >>> discussion. >> >>I for one think this makes the command name dependent on a non-essential >>implementation detail, so -script should go. > > > I had the same opinion. The counter-argument people raised when > this topic came up on the list was that it would help grepping > in the source tree. > > I'm tempted to suggest doing something along these lines: > > - Rename things that are implemented in shell from *-script to > *.sh, and perl to *.perl in the source tree; *.pl is what is usually used for perl scripts. > > - Install them without .{sh,perl} suffix. > > Once this is done, the users nor the 'git' wrapper do not have > to deal with *-script. > > Comments? > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious." -- Ambrose Bierce