[csw-maintainers] Alternatives

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi,

Am 19.12.2009 um 01:27 schrieb Ben Walton:
> Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Fri Dec 18 17:44:17 -0500  
> 2009:
>
>> by that argument, you might say that me naming "pkg-get" as such, and
>> not "apt-get", was just too confusing, because since the userland
>> syntax is the same, and it IS a 90% clone of apt-get, I should have
>> kept the name as apt-get.
>
> The difference being pkg-get is an apt-get workalike.  The package
> Maciej has put forward is the 'real deal[1].'
>
> While the name used in Debian is long and annoying to type, even with
> auto-completion, it's really not something you interact with often, if
> at all.
>
> So, my 'vote' is that if we don't do a ground up reimplementation, we
> stick with the name from Debian.  If somebody wants to invest the time
> tailoring a solution to CSW, pick a new name.
>
> <wonders aloud>
> Is anyone else out there not making use of auto-completion shell
> features?  Life feels too short for that! :)
> </wonders aloud>
>
> -Ben
>
> [1] It's the identical code/functionality split out from a larger
>    Debian package.

+1 from me and it is still not released. Could we please get on with  
this?
I need this for at least two packages (mutt and especially automake),
both pending release.


Best regards

   -- Dago