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From: Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
Subject: Re: gobject-introspection typelibs and shared libraries
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 09:27:17 +0100
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To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> So far we=E2=80=99ve resisted the temptation, and it=E2=80=99s rarely b=
een an issue.
>>> :-)
>>
>> Could you elaborate on the down sides? (I'm not trying to insist, but to=
 learn.)
>
> Basically it=E2=80=99s good to stick to what GCC does, and GCC does not i=
nstall
> =E2=80=98cc=E2=80=99.  There=E2=80=99s a subjective aesthetic downside: i=
t=E2=80=99s good to spread the
> =E2=80=98g=E2=80=99.  And also, it turns out to work for 99% of the packa=
ges.

OK, I thought you were referring to technical reasons...

A different look at aesthetics: Back in the mid '90, when Linux was
still an underground curiosity, many UNIX admins were starting to
install GNU user-land applications. To avoid name clashes with the
vendor versions of programs they were prefixing all GNU applications
with a 'g'. So, the GNU version of 'ls' was named 'gls', 'awk' ->
'gawk', ...  Now on GNU/Linux systems there's no need for such
prefixing and, for consistency and to send a message, you may just
name the C compiler with the traditional name 'cc' which means: Hey,
this is the official system C compiler and of course, it's the GNU
one.

Regards,
Fede