From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jay Sulzberger Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Rename GNU fdisk to GUILE diskutils Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:39:22 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <87609gggj8.fsf@yahoo.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1513215577 29808 195.159.176.226 (14 Dec 2017 01:39:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 01:39:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mentors@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 14 02:39:34 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ePIUn-0007Z8-Px for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 02:39:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38681 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePIUu-0003CY-QZ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:39:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49394) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePIUo-0003CN-Ew for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:39:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePIUj-00089n-IJ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:39:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailbackend.panix.com ([166.84.1.89]:62768) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePIUj-000894-E2; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:39:29 -0500 Original-Received: from panix3.panix.com (panix3.panix.com [166.84.1.3]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42E9B11E2A; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:39:23 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by panix3.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 7271) id E28B02EB56; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:39:22 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by panix3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFA882EB55; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:39:22 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87609gggj8.fsf@yahoo.it> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux (Android) [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 166.84.1.89 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:19426 Archived-At: On Sat, 9 Dec 2017, Christian Brunello Christian Brunello wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I write because I would like to rename the GNU fdisk > package. > > In the version I am preparing, the program is written in Scheme, using > Guile. In this release there will be only the fdisk program, but in the > future I want to add more. So a more generic name would be appropriate. > > I discussed this with Richard Stallman, and the volunteers on the > mentors@gnu.org list. Since the package is based on GUILE, we consider > using the name "Guile Diskutils". > > We wanted to know what you think of this name. > > -- > Christian Brunello I have forgotten when I first used the present program called "fdisk". I use it only on systems with the Linux kernel and all *nix utilities being GNU utilities. Recently I use it one day a week on several systems, mainly to check that I know what drives are plugged into which computers. So I mainly do fdisk -l I am for keeping the name "fdisk" for the new GUILE-LISP POWERED HYPERDRIVE MANIPULATOR. To me, fdisk feels like a basic standard utility, like ed^WEmacs. So the name should remain the same even unto and beyond the day it works by teleporting the drive to Frolix-8 and asking our friends there to do the work. When fdisk becomes a small, but always foundational!, part of the new GNU collection of low level data mungers, its info page should have a section presenting the Scheme theoretic techniques used to build all the parts of the package. oo--JS.