On Sep 26 11:22, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Reini Urban wrote: > > I forgot to mention that SWI-Prolog already has pl.exe in a seperate > > location, and /usr/bin/pl is just a symlink to that. > > > > On SWI-Prolog installation the symlink is overwritten by setup.exe to > > use the prolog binary, and on ploticus installation the same, just by > > the postinstall script. There's no action required at the SWI-Prolog > > side. > > I'm not sure I parsed the last paragraph correctly, but if I did, then the > action of creating the symlink for SWI-Prolog is unconditional. It needs > to be made conditional, just like the one for ploticus, otherwise > installing SWI-Prolog will *always* overwrite the symlink.
Sorry, but the prolog interpreter is historically always named pl. And a name clash like this, which provides *entirely* different tools using the same name shouldn't be solved on a "first come, first serve" base. This isn't the same situation as with ksh and pdksh or ash and bash. 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? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc.
