On Wednesday, November 30, 2011 4:17:46 PM Guillaume Nodet wrote:
> Well, I'd object tomcat does the same, and afaik, I've never heard it
> was a problem.
> 
> I think not having the suffix ".sh" is fine when you only have unix
> binaries.  If you mix both in the same distribution, having different
> extensions makes things more intuitive / homogeneous imho

As a counter example, we all type "mvn", not "mvn.sh" yet there is a mvn.bat 
in there as well.    :-)

Dan



> 
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 16:07, Daniel Kulp <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm more -1 to it.   It really is against normal unix conventions to do
> > it. A user shouldn't need to know if an executable is a shell script, a
> > perl script, python, executable, etc...   That's all that the .sh
> > really does.
> > 
> > I just checked my /usr/bin directory and 560 of the 2758 "executables"
> > in
> > there are really shell scripts.  Only 16 of them have a .sh extension.
> > 
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > On Wednesday, November 30, 2011 8:20:00 AM Guillaume Nodet wrote:
> >> Originally, the distribution did not contain both unix and windows
> >> files (there are 2 different distributions in 2.x), but given we now
> >> have a single distribution containing both files, it seems to me a bit
> >> more homogeneous to have ".bat" for windows batches and ".sh" for unix
> >> scripts.
> >> So I'm *slightly* inclined to rename those, but that's not really a
> >> big problem to me.  If it can help some users, why not ....
> >> 
> >> Jean-Baptiste, do you see any problem with renaming those files apart
> >> from the fact that it's not really necessary on unix (so I do agree
> >> that it's not a requirement).
> >> 
> >> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 05:25, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> >> > Hi Andres,
> >> > 
> >> > My comments:
> >> > 
> >> > 1/ the windows script as .bat extension because it's a requirement
> >> > on
> >> > Windows
> >> > 2/ the important thing is the header (#!/bin/sh) in the unix
> >> > script more than the extension.
> >> > 3/ it's really important, for portability, to use /bin/sh (which
> >> > allow
> >> > us to use with bash, zsh on Linux, csh and ksh on Solaris/AIX)
> >> > more
> >> > than /bin/bash
> >> > 
> >> > I don't see a good reason to rename to karaf.sh, karaf looks very
> >> > good
> >> > for me.
> >> > 
> >> > Regards
> >> > JB
> >> > 
> >> > On 11/30/2011 05:21 AM, Andreas Pieber wrote:
> >> >> Hey guys,
> >> >> 
> >> >> I want to start a discussion about this JIRA here on the dev
> >> >> list: TBH I'm personally quite indifferent but if we want to
> >> >> change this we should do it now for 3.0 or otherwise it wont
> >> >> happen for quite a long time (till 4.0).
> >> >> 
> >> >> So, WDYT?
> >> >> 
> >> >> Kind regards,
> >> >> Andreas
> >> >> 
> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> >> From: Andrei Pozolotin (Created) (JIRA)<[email protected]>
> >> >> Date: Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 23:45
> >> >> Subject: [jira] [Created] (KARAF-1060) use bash file
> >> >> extenstions:
> >> >> karaf -> karaf.sh
> >> >> To: [email protected]
> >> >> 
> >> >> 
> >> >> use bash file extenstions: karaf ->  karaf.sh
> >> >> --------------------------------------------
> >> >> 
> >> >>                 Key: KARAF-1060
> >> >>                 URL:
> >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-1060
> >> >>             Project: Karaf
> >> >>          Issue Type: Bug
> >> >>            Reporter: Andrei Pozolotin
> >> >> 
> >> >> 
> >> >> currently, windows /bin files have extensions, such as
> >> >> karaf.bat
> >> >> 
> >> >> but unix, do not:
> >> >> karaf
> >> >> 
> >> >> I suggest to use, instead:
> >> >> karaf.sh
> >> >> 
> >> >> so that I can associate *.sh with bash editors like this
> >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/shelled/
> >> >> 
> >> >> :-)
> >> >> 
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> >> > 
> >> > --
> >> > Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> >> > [email protected]
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> > 
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