Because no one disagree strongly, I opened some bugreports for the
naming convention :

Hostname :
nfs_oscar -> oscar_nfs_home
pbs_oscar -> oscar_pbs

Applications :
install_cluster -> oscar

Everyone seems to agree with the general rule to prefix all oscar
commands by "oscar" so that everyone will be able to easily know which
oscar commands are available on his system. 

However, some people were concerned with the very long name and the lost 
of some "nice souding" abbreviations (opd, oda, opium, ...)

Jeff wanted to keep opd opd and Jeremy oda oda.

Because opd and oda are member of the core OSCAR infrastructure we could decide
that they can keep their abbreviate name...

However, I think that the core packages should show the example and
implement the naming conventions ;-) Those name are only meaningfull for
OSCAR developpers ! Users (I know some of them ;-) and even some
developpers asked some questions about those abreviations. I even
thought that oda was "OSCAR database abstraction" (instead of OSCAR
database) !!!

Question 1 is : should opd be renamed "oscar_package_downloader" ?
Question 2 is : should "oda" renamed "oscar_database" ?

Another solution was proposed by Jeff :

> How about an alternate solution: just have a module for all the OSCAR
> commands.  They should all [eventually] get installed to /opt/oscar-X.Y
> somewhere, anyway.  And only the sysadmin should probably have these
> commands in their path.
> 
> So have a module and put it in switcher -- the system default is to not
> load it, but root (and/or the sysadmin user) can override that and have it
> loaded.  So things like "opd" and "oscar_foo" are in their path.

This seems a bit complicated for me while I agree that those commands should be 
avalaible
,most of the time, only for the root user. 

Ben
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