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Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools
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Andy Wingo |
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Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools |
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Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:51:09 +0200 |
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On Mon 21 Mar 2011 22:50, Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:
> - "gel" is short; and it's the name of Guile before it was Guile; and
> suggests sticking things together; and AFAIK isn't already being used
> for anything else; and has similar key positions as "gdo", so is
> equally easy to type.
Gel is good!
> - I think I might find guile-tools (as is) less bothering if its
> built-in commands (help, version and list) were rewritten as scripts
> themselves. Then it would be clearer that the remaining code in
> guile-tools was just implementing the main-invocation convention for
> scripts/*.
Good idea also!
> On the overall point, of having a separate name instead of just "guile",
> I think it just comes down to the observation that "because the `git'
> experience seems definitive". And I agree that it's hard to argue with
> that.
>
> Best wishes for reaching a decision on this!
Heh, thanks! I'm going to stir the pot a little bit now, with another
suggestion for the name :)
Andy
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- proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools, Andy Wingo, 2011/03/19
- Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools, Ludovic Courtès, 2011/03/20
- Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools, Andy Wingo, 2011/03/21
- Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools, Barry Fishman, 2011/03/21
- Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools, dsmich, 2011/03/21
- Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools, Neil Jerram, 2011/03/21
- Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools, Andy Wingo, 2011/03/21
- Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools, Neil Jerram, 2011/03/21
- Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools,
Andy Wingo <=
- Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools, Neil Jerram, 2011/03/30
- Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools, David Pirotte, 2011/03/21
Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz, 2011/03/21
on the importance of names (was: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools), Andy Wingo, 2011/03/30
- Re: on the importance of names (was: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools), Noah Lavine, 2011/03/30
- Re: on the importance of names (was: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools), nalaginrut, 2011/03/30
- Re: on the importance of names, Ludovic Courtès, 2011/03/30
- Re: on the importance of names, Andy Wingo, 2011/03/30
- Re: on the importance of names, Ludovic Courtès, 2011/03/31
Re: on the importance of names, Neil Jerram, 2011/03/30