To keep quality and consistency I follow these rules for our files installed into bindir. I would like others to follow them too.
1) We have a special bin/ subdirectory for programs installed to bindir. 2) We don't install any program to bindir that does not have a man page. 3) We don't install any program to bindir without --help and --version. 4) The programs in the system's bindir should not have any extension. Extensions like .sh or .pl are good for files without +x permissions so that a user could know what interpretter to run on these files. Additional reasoning: My /usr/bin has 2002 files. From 280 sh/bash scripts only 11 are *.sh. 5) The programs should have the "fvwm-" prefix for consistency. Additional reasoning: My /usr/bin has 242 files in the dash form like "gnome-bug" and and only 95 files in the underscore form like "pg_dump". I think many projects follow these rules. They lead to a better user experience. Regards, Mikhael. -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
