On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Mark Hobson wrote: Well.. changing the commandline with each version makes for easier co-existense between versions. But when Maven 4 comes out we are going to have a problem :)
I personally don't like the 'drop the vowels' choice. Unix is cluttered enough with abbreviated commands as is, and the letters being close to each other doesn't necessarily mean they're typed faster. I personally would like the executable to be named 'maven', or 'maven2', and keep m2 for backwards compatibility for a while. (I'll probably add an alias m2 maven2 :)) Just my 2 cents. -- Kenney > Hi all, > > Now I'm sure this is a programming faux pas (and also badly timed > being so near to 2.0 final) but I've been pondering this since the > alpha1 days - what do people think of renaming the m2 executable to > mvn? The reasoning being: > > * m2 does differentiate from the m1 maven executable, but what happens > when m2.1 and m3 come out - do we keep changing the cmdline? > > * mvn still allows maven1 and maven2 to co-exist side-by-side, but is > also future-proof > > * mvn is a handy TLA like svn, cvs or ant and other tools people type > many times a day > > * the keys 'm', 'v' and 'n' are conveniently located almost > side-by-side on the same row > > * mvn is simply maven with the vowels dropped > > What do people think? I realise this is hardly a blocker but it's > good to get off my chest! > > Cheers, > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Kenney Westerhof http://www.neonics.com GPG public key: http://www.gods.nl/~forge/kenneyw.key --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
