On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 06:17:39PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Sep 26 12:06, Andrew Schulman wrote: >>>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? >> >>The only problem is that all of the ploticus docs refer to its >>executable as pl. This would certainly confuse some users, at least >>for a while. Of course I could add some text in the ploticus README >>file, but most users probably wouldn't see it. >> >>Is it possible to do as Igor suggested, and create a symlink from >>/usr/bin/pl to /usr/bin/ploticus iff /usr/bin/pl doesn't already exist? >>If the user then later installed SWI-Prolog, would the installer blow >>up or fail to install the Prolog /usr/bin/pl? > >Sounds more confusing to me than just leaving ploticus being ploticus. >I don't think it makes sense to use the same name for different tools >and let them struggle for the name.
I agree. How is this handled in linux distributions? cgf
