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task #14320: Alternatives for program name suffix
Submitter: | Mohammad Akhlaghi <makhlaghi> | ||
Submitted: | Tue 24 Jan 2017 11:50:20 AM UTC | ||
Should Start On: | Mon 23 Jan 2017 03:00:00 PM UTC | Should be Finished on: | Mon 23 Jan 2017 03:00:00 PM UTC |
Category: | All Gnuastro | Priority: | 5 - Normal |
Item Group: | Enhancement | Status: | Postponed |
Privacy: | Public | Assigned to: | None |
Percent Complete: | 0% | Open/Closed: | Open |
Effort: | 0.00 |
Tue 24 Jan 2017 06:17:06 PM UTC, comment #4: |
Mohammad Akhlaghi <makhlaghi> |
Tue 24 Jan 2017 05:42:38 PM UTC, comment #3: My own sense is to favour the current 'ast' prefix over the proposed 'gap-' prefix.
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Lee Kelvin <leeskelvin> |
Tue 24 Jan 2017 05:10:02 PM UTC, comment #2: In short, to help the user in managing all the executables in their system. So for example when you want Gnuastro's executables, you just type this on the command-line and you get the whole list:
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Mohammad Akhlaghi <makhlaghi> |
Tue 24 Jan 2017 04:10:11 PM UTC, comment #1: As a newcomer here, may I ask for a brief overview of what the rationale was behind the suggestion from the GNU Evaluation Committee to prefix all Gnuastro programs with 'ast'?
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Lee Kelvin <leeskelvin> |
Tue 24 Jan 2017 11:50:20 AM UTC, original submission:
The `ast' prefix to all Gnuastro's programs was defined as one of the great suggestions by the GNU Evaluation Committee and has remained since then.
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Mohammad Akhlaghi <makhlaghi> |
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Thanks Lee, very interesting argument! Can you believe I had never thought about the fact that `ast' and TAB can be typed with one hand! Maybe it goes back to the experience of the evaluation committee! `gap' and `gau' both need two hands! That was interesting ...
This was a pretty convincing argument, but let's leave the task as open until the 0.3 release, maybe prefixes better than `ast' might be found/suggested, if not we'll just stick to the `ast'.