Actually, we have a cooperative process for dealing with this kind of
thing. It's call ARCing.
Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
>
>
>>> For this reason, the "compare" from imagemagick either needs to be renamed
>>> or it needs to be put into a different directory.
>>>
>> Your compare command gives a name clash with ImageMagick's compare command;
>> why don't you rename yours?
>>
>
> Looks like you are unwilling to cooperate!
>
> Why should I rename that exists in the public for a long time just because
> some uncooperative people reused the name?
>
Your argument there is with the open source community. It's the
ImageMagick open source project that chose the name "compare" for their
program. Yes, we did choose to place it in /usr/bin along with the rest
of the ImageMagick commands, but there was a reasonable expectation that
we would do so when we integrated it into Solaris. Remarkably, this is
how it's been done on other open source operating system distributions.
The fact that /usr/bin/compare on other open source operating system
distributions comes from ImageMagick must be lost on you. You may not
like it, I may or may not like it, but that's simply how it is.
-Norm
