[ITP] bashdb, bash_completion

[Max Bowsher]

Reini Urban wrote:
> Max Bowsher schrieb:
>> Reini Urban wrote:
>>> Christopher Faylor schrieb:
>>>> I read your email.  I guess my mind boggled at the concept that anyone
>>>> would be so..., er, bold as to assume that they could trump someone
>>>> else's
>>>> package by using the name "bash.exe" when there is already an extremely
>>>> well-known package which uses that name.
>>>>
>>>> As I said.  Work this out with Ronald.
>>>>
>>>> And please don't send any more "ITPs" which wipe out other parts of
>>>> people's packages.
>>>
>>> Why not?
>>
>> The current setup.exe infrastructure doesn't provide for elegant
>> handling of multiple packages providing the same file. The name
>> "/bin/bash.exe" belongs to the bash package. It is therefore NOT
>> available for a bashdb package to use. End of story.
>
> Ok, I reject hereby my bash-2.50b-rebash and bashdb proposal.
> Technical arguments are always the golden hammer.

Why not just use the name "/bin/bashdb-bash.exe" (or similar) instead?

Max.