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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next prev parent 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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