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From: | Eric Bavier |
Subject: | Re: Rename GNU fdisk to GUILE diskutils |
Date: | Tue, 12 Dec 2017 12:11:51 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 |
On 12/09/2017 07:46 AM, Christian Brunello wrote:
Hello everyone, I write because I would like to rename the GNU fdisk package. In the version I am preparing, the program is written in Scheme, using Guile. In this release there will be only the fdisk program, but in the future I want to add more. So a more generic name would be appropriate. I discussed this with Richard Stallman, and the volunteers on the address@hidden list. Since the package is based on GUILE, we consider using the name "Guile Diskutils". We wanted to know what you think of this name.
IMHO the programming language/compiler a utility is written with is an implementation detail that should not manifest itself in the utility's name. In this case, I think "GNU Distutils" would be better.
-- `~Eric
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