Not to add another solution to the mix, but how about renaming the commands like you suggest and providing links for the short names. So the command would be "oscar_database" but there would be a symlink "oda" that would link to the real command. This gets the benefits of both approaches.
Mike On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 21:04, Benoit des Ligneris wrote: > 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 > -- > Benoit des Ligneris Etudiant au Doctorat -- Ph. D. Student > Web : http://benoit.des.ligneris.net/ > Mydynaweb Developpe(u)r: http://mydynaweb.net/ > Centre de Calcul Scientifique http://ccs.USherbrooke.ca/ > > OSCAR Symposium-May 11-14 http://oscar2003.ccs.USherbrooke.ca/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
