On 10 February 2015 at 14:07, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > Stefan Fuhrmann wrote on Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 18:46:51 +0100: >> Con: >> - some people have seen the tool and may have used it >> with its current name >> >> Neutral: >> * renames have happened in the past (e.g. mucc -> svnmucc) > > For svnmucc, we add a symlink from the old location in Makefile.in: > > if test "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)" != "$(DESTDIR)$(toolsdir)"; then \ > ln -sf $(bindir)/svnmucc$(EXEEXT) $(DESTDIR)$(toolsdir)/svnmucc$(EXEEXT); > \ > fi > > So you could do something similar for this rename. I think that distro packagers who made unofficially released tool part of they package could do this, but we should not add a symlink in Subversion core.
-- Ivan Zhakov
