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Re: plz -> curl?
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: plz -> curl? |
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Tue, 17 May 2022 18:59:05 -0400 |
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> It's always easy to retrospectively decide which package should have
> which name (after the dust has settled and one of the contenders for
> a given name has accrued a decisive advantage), but backward
> compatibility as well as the need to choose a name before the dust has
> settled (which can take a very long time) mean that non-obvious names
> are here to stay.
We can define a new, clear name and use it to refer to the package by,
and keep the old name as an alias. That gets the best of these two
worlds.
--
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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