Re: [PATCH] Debian packaging for 0.99.4

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 12:35:55PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:

David Lang:

quoted

after so many years of software development (and with the policy of never 
having conflicting command names) what three letter combinations are still 
avilable?

Lots.

quoted

I'm assuming that the much smaller pool of two letter commands was long 
since exhausted, but if not what two letter commands are available?

Lots of them, I hope, but all of them obscure.

We even have 25 one-letter commands that are free. My /usr/bin/ only has
'w'. And if we run out, we could branch off into other alphabets;
unfortunately, not everybody has a quick way to type an ??. Or ??. Or ???. ;-)

"gt" seems free on my machine here.  I haven't poke around at all the
other ones that have slightly different sets of software, but searching
on the Debian packages search engine:

http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=%2Fusr%2Fbin%2Fgt&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=unstable&arch=i386

cogito in Debian seems to have taken it already for git, anyway.

We can make the conversion easy for people by providing this shell
script for a few weeks:

	#!/bin/sh
	echo "Don't get a git - use gt!
	gt $*

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Ryan Anderson
  sometimes Pug Majere