Re: script binaries renaming

Michael Glaesemann wrote:
>
> On Jul 6, 2007, at 5:53 , Dave Page wrote:
>
>> On Fri, July 6, 2007 8:51 am, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> Am Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007 17:04 schrieb Zdenek Kotala:
>>>> I attach complete patch which renames following binaries
>>>>
>>>> createdb createlang createuser dropdb droplang dropuser clusterdb
>>>> vacuumdb reindexdb
>>>
>>> I just want to say I dislike this idea.
>>
>> This is almost as bad as Magnus agreeing with JD (!), but I agree with
>> Peter :-). After years of typing the current names, changing them does
>> seem somewhat annoying. Worse yet, pg_* is just awkward to type.
>
> While the change might be awkward, the names of these binaries really
> should be namespaced in some way. The current just too generic to be
> throwing into a bin/ directory in my opinion.

Why should they be name spaced? I see zero reason why that should be the
case...

apache_httpd?
gnu_ls?

The only obvious name spaced applications out there are in the G/K world
of nome and de.

Joshua D. Drake


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