On 31 December 2013 23:49, Karl Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > >> +#define PROGRAM_NAME "hello" > > > > Since in our case it's the same as the package name, can't you use that > > here, and avoid duplicating the string "hello"? > > I have feeling that might give wrong impression as an example. > > Anything in GNU hello is being implicitly recommended for general use. > Normally, GNU packages have no need to deal with a special g-prefix. > Therefore IMHO it is (much) better to omit the redundancy.
Maybe the question is if the use of gnulib module version-etc-fsf should be recommended or not. If yes AUTHOR and PROGRAM_NAME are unavoidable. I am in favor recommending unified look & style of --help and --version outputs across commands, what this module tries to do. -- Sami Kerola http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/
