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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:51:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ei5o51b6.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ipvcf8hv.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:50:52 +0000")

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!

> - 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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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-30 10:51 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 [this message]
2011-03-30 18:27               ` Neil Jerram
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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