Re: Rename GNU fdisk to GUILE diskutils

[tomas]

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On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:01:41PM -0200, David Pirotte wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> 
> > >> 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.
> 
> It is, by definition, an implementation detail [...]

I strongly agree. You don't call "ls" "C ls", or  "nroff" "Shell nroff",
or "automake" "Perl automake". This somewhat conveys that "if you aren't
a Pythonista (or whatever), this program is not for you".

But hey, I'm not the author :-)

Cheers
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