From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:27:08 +0100 Message-ID: <87r59ofoqr.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: <87ipvdqt69.fsf@gnu.org> <87ipvcf8hv.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301509843 29105 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2011 18:30:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:30:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 30 20:30:39 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q50A8-0006tl-3I for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:30:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34947 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q50A7-0004Ad-A9 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:30:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52832 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5070-0002qS-5Y for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:27:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q506u-0007dK-IS for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:27:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:35960) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q506u-0007bh-EH for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:27:16 -0400 Original-Received: from arudy (unknown [78.145.31.253]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 830351F66A5; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:27:09 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from neil-laptop (unknown [192.168.11.4]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C46138013; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:27:08 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:51:09 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Received-From: 80.84.72.33 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:12092 Archived-At: Andy Wingo writes: > On Mon 21 Mar 2011 22:50, Neil Jerram 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