[csw-maintainers] Alternatives

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Thu Dec 10 19:26:31 CET 2009


On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Sebastian Kayser <skayser at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
>>...
>> Then how will humans specify what they want?
>
> What's the concern about the command name being too long when we live in
> an age of shell auto-completion?

my shell doesnt autocomplete, nor do I want it to.

>As a related question: we port a known
> utility to our platform (Solaris), why not keep the known name? That's
> what we do with almost all the other software.

well now that you mention it, it might be nice to keep an alias for
the "regular name", or vice versa.

but I'd still like to see a short(er) name for primary use.



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