On Sep 26 12:06, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > So, no, I won't change the SWI-Prolog package to create /usr/bin/pl > > only if it doesn't exist. What's the problem having ploticus being named > > ploticus? > > The only problem is that all of the ploticus docs refer to its > executable as pl. This would certainly confuse some users, at least > for a while. Of course I could add some text in the ploticus README > file, but most users probably wouldn't see it. > > Is it possible to do as Igor suggested, and create a symlink from > /usr/bin/pl to /usr/bin/ploticus iff /usr/bin/pl doesn't already > exist? If the user then later installed SWI-Prolog, would the > installer blow up or fail to install the Prolog /usr/bin/pl?
Sounds more confusing to me than just leaving ploticus being ploticus. I don't think it makes sense to use the same name for different tools and let them struggle for the name. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc.
