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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:27:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r59ofoqr.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ei5o51b6.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (Andy Wingo's message of "Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:51:09 +0200")

Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:

> On Mon 21 Mar 2011 22:50, Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> 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!

But I agree that Guild is better!

>> - 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!

I'll do that - if you haven't already started it.

     Neil



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-30 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-19 11:36 proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools Andy Wingo
2011-03-20 23:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-03-21  8:27   ` Andy Wingo
2011-03-21 11:51     ` nalaginrut
2011-03-21 11:58       ` nalaginrut
2011-03-21 12:16     ` Barry Fishman
2011-03-21 14:10       ` Neil Jerram
2011-03-21 19:28         ` Andy Wingo
2011-03-21 21:50           ` Neil Jerram
2011-03-30 10:51             ` Andy Wingo
2011-03-30 18:27               ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2011-03-21 16:32       ` dsmich
2011-03-21 15:12     ` David Pirotte
2011-03-21 15:00   ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2011-03-30 11:08   ` on the importance of names (was: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools) Andy Wingo
2011-03-30 13:11     ` Noah Lavine
2011-03-30 13:15     ` nalaginrut
2011-03-30 15:52     ` on the importance of names Ludovic Courtès
2011-03-30 16:25       ` Andy Wingo
2011-03-31  9:32         ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-05-31 20:38           ` Andy Wingo
2011-05-31 21:55             ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-03-30 18:11     ` Neil Jerram

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