Hi there, When that tool got "promoted" to live under ./subversion, we already had a short discussion on whether to keep the hyphen in its name. I've been against the rename only because of it being already released in 1.8 with the "-" in it. Relevant dev@ thread: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-dev/201408.mbox/%3c53f34efb.5070...@collab.net%3E
I've changed my mind. The name simply looks odd and I feel we should get rid of this idiosyncrasy before it takes too much hold. IMO, sparing future confusion on the user side on how to spell tool names outweighs the inconvenience of teaching a few current users. So, let's rename it in 1.9. Pro: + consistent naming of tools; svn-bench would be the sole exception Con: - some people have seen the tool and may have used it with its current name Neutral: * renames have happened in the past (e.g. mucc -> svnmucc) * many distributions didn't even ship a compiled version of svn-bench -- Stefan^2
