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Re: Rename GNU fdisk to GUILE diskutils


From: Christian Brunello
Subject: Re: Rename GNU fdisk to GUILE diskutils
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 00:43:29 +0100

David Pirotte writes:

>> 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.
>
>       "GNU Diskutils"
>
> 1+
>
> David

I'm sorry but I do not agree. Guile is not an implementation detail in
this case. It means that the package is based on Guile. It's like xterm
(a terminal for x window), gnome-terminal (a terminal based on the GNOME
framework) and so on.

-- 
Christian Brunello



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