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Re: ✘ubxtool
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Gary E. Miller |
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Re: ✘ubxtool |
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Wed, 8 Jul 2020 20:12:35 -0700 |
Yo Fred!
On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 20:03:30 -0700 (PDT)
Fred Wright <fw@fwright.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2020, Gary E. Miller wrote:
>
> > Good grief. Yet another project has a program called ubxyool;
> >
> > https://github.com/ahuPowerDNS/galmon
> >
> > Is it time to rename ubxtool to gpxubx? Or?
>
> No strong opinions here. Is the 'gpx' a typo, or intentional (with
> precedent) to make collisions less likely? I'm actually surprised
> that there haven't been more collisions with the 'gps' prefix, given
> that 'gps' is pretty generic.
Yeah, a typo. I meant gpsubx.
A duckduckgo search for ubxtool, #1:
https://www.mankier.com/1/ubxtool
But 4 of the top 6 are gpsd.io.
Google is better, 10 out of 10 are the gpsd ubxtool.
So prolly worth keeping the name.
> Using 'gps' as the library names was probably especially ill-advised,
> but it can't be fixed now without breaking things.
But so far no known collisions on gpsd or libgps.
RGDS
GARY
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