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
next prev parent 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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