Either way seems fine to me also.  Maybe do a strawpoll and go w/ the majority. 
 Other misc. thoughts:

Internally, I already used “bropkg” instead of “bro-pkg” for the name of the 
Python package/API because Python discourages use of hyphens in module/package 
names.  But using the Python API isn’t a common use case and figure most devs 
can handle doing “import bropkg” even though the command-line tool is named 
“bro-pkg”.

I don’t think there’s an argument to change it for the sake of aligning the 
naming convention with “broctl” because there’s already "bro-cut”.  The 
hyphenation between those tools is already inconsistent or at least unclear why 
one deserves hyphenation and the other doesn’t.

If easier typing is the rationale, users do already have the option of creating 
their own shell alias.  

Another idea is to keep the command line tool named “bro-pkg”, but also install 
a symlink to it named “bropkg” for convenience.

- Jon

> On Sep 15, 2016, at 9:35 AM, Slagell, Adam J <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Someone did come up to me and ask about that during BroCon.
> 
> I am indifferent, just please let’s not open up the whole tool name naming 
> conversation. I don’t think I can take that again. :-)
> 
>> On Sep 15, 2016, at 9:27 AM, Seth Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> What does everyone think about making a change to rename bro-pkg to bropkg?  
>> I think we're early enough that we could probably get away with it and it 
>> fits with more with existing tools like broctl.  I find it difficult to type 
>> the hyphen too for some reason.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> .Seth
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