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Re: new tools coming and a couple of renamings
- To: esr at thyrsus dot com,Mark Galassi <rosalia at galassi dot org>
- Subject: Re: new tools coming and a couple of renamings
- From: Eric Lee Green <eric at badtux dot org>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 06:35:04 -0700
- Cc: Docbook Tools discussion list <docbook-tools-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Myself@home
- References: <76g0p4w09h.fsf@odie.lanl.gov> <20000721032257.F14571@thyrsus.com>
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, esr@thyrsus.com wrote:
> Mark Galassi <rosalia@galassi.org>:
> > So my proposal is to deprecate the db2* names in favor of the
> > docbook2* names. This phase-out would be extremely slow, since
> > thousands of build procedures use the db2* scripts now.
>
> something to do with databases. Removing ambiguity is good. On the
> other hand, it's proper Unix tradition to have short names for a
> reason -- it saves typing for hapless fumble-fingers like me.
'db' is too much like a database name. 'docbook' is too long. How about "docb"?
as in, "docb2html" etc.? Yeah, it's just 3 characters shorter, but it appears
to be the shortest unambiguous name... clearly says the command has something
to do with docs, and the b is clue enough that it's dealing with docbook.
Alternately, "doc2html" etc... hmm... bit ambigous there. Might make me think
it's a generic x-format doc to html translater....
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