Re: Package system

[Paul Kienzle]

On Oct 21, 2005, at 1:18 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

>   * The remaining functions currently have the following names
>
>       installed_packages.m
>       load_packages.m
>       uninstall.m
>       get_unsatisfied_deps.m
>       install.m
>
>     Maybe we should have just one command?
>
>       pkg -list
>       pkg -install -nodeps pkg-name ...
>       pkg -uninstall nodeps pkg-name ...
>       pkg -require pkg-name ...
>
>     or multiple names, but all starting with pkg:
>
>       pkg_list
>       pkg_install
>       pkg_uninstall
>       pkg_require (or pkg_load)


Maintaining my debian system became a lot more pleasant once I started 
using wajig.  Using a single prefix for all commands is a very good 
thing.

Give that the pkg command is never called without a '-subcommand' I 
would argue for pkg_subcommand.  Later when we have syntactic support 
for namespaces then we can break it into pkg.subcommand (assuming a 
namespace is a first class object like in python) or pkg::subcommand 
(assuming a namespace is something syntactic like in C++).

At a minimum, use the syntax "pkg subcommand" rather than "pkg 
-subcommand" since the subcommand is a requirement rather than an 
option.

- Paul