Re: [Oscar-devel] Naming convention II

[Neil Gorsuch]

Just as with pfilter, oda is designed to be a stand-alone package outside of oscar. If we want the oscar/oda package scripts to install a link named oscar_database that points to the binary program oda, that is fine. But frankly I don't see the need to have a long name. I'm not much for inconveniencing myself for the sake of standardizing things.

> Hostname :

> nfs_oscar -> oscar_nfs_home
> pbs_oscar -> oscar_pbs

Absolutely I agree on these.

> Applications :
> install_cluster -> oscar

I've always said the main installation/maintanance program should be named 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.

I don't agree with that, not as a blanket rule. Oscar is all about pulling in best practices for cluster software. It is not about re-writing all the software that is put into/installed with oscar. Commands that are part of oscar should not be all named oscar_*, this would mean we can't attract outside packages.

> 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" ?

The binary for oda that is installed with the oda rpms will be named oda. If we want to have an oscar_database symbolic link to it, fine.



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