From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Horst von Brand Subject: Re: Tool renames? was Re: First stab at glossary Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 20:54:12 -0400 Message-ID: <200509050054.j850sC3D023778@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> References: Cc: Horst von Brand , Daniel Barkalow , Tim Ottinger , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 05 03:13:29 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EC5XB-00070w-13 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 03:12:29 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932152AbVIEBMT (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Sep 2005 21:12:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932161AbVIEBMT (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Sep 2005 21:12:19 -0400 Received: from inti.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.21.155]:53381 "EHLO inti.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932152AbVIEBMT (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Sep 2005 21:12:19 -0400 Received: from laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j850sC3D023778; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 20:54:12 -0400 To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: Message from Junio C Hamano of "Sun, 04 Sep 2005 17:03:07 MST." <7vmzmsbcuc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.1; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 17) 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. Grepping for what? It is not /that/ much more expensive to run file(1) over the tree if you want to know what is a script and what isn't. Furthermore, the "-script" extension doesn't work for this as of today (see your own message a while back ;-). Keeping it requires discipline that tools don't help enforcing today (and the extension use itself is very un-Unix-like), so further "mistakes" /will/ happen. In any case, this would be for a very specialized, developer-only, occasional task. I don't see how that warrants a fractured tool namespace for /all/ users /all/ the time. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513