On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:33 PM, The Fungi <fu...@yuggoth.org> wrote: > On 2012-09-07 16:40:07 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: > [...] >> The problem is that the software is called wallet, both the >> software itself and the primary client binary that users invoke. >> [...] I don't think there's another UNIX/Linux binary of that >> name. But, of course, it's still not a very unique name. [...] >> (see the recent node discussion), but on the other hand it's going >> to be a big pain for me and for users > [...] > > Frequently invoked console/text utilities have a good excuse for > taking up short, easily typed and easily remembered words in the > executable path namespace. That strikes me as the real reason to > avoid having programs commonly launched from a GUI icon of some sort > polluting that namespace--they aren't frequently called from the > CLI. > > If your users are used to entering "wallet blah" and there's no > wallet command in another package already, I'd be in favor of > leaving it as is. Spending most of my life in a CLI, I'm not at all > fond of typing one mile-long-hyphenated-command-name after another.
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