Plink2 (Was: Bug#771154: plink: New major upstream version of plink)

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:45:12AM +0100, Dylan wrote:
> Hi Steffen,
> 
> 2014-12-22 10:22 GMT+01:00 "Steffen Möller" <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>:
> 
> > Much in support of Dylan, please also think about the binary filename of
> > the executable. We had the unfortunate p-link for Version 1 to avoid a
> > clash with one of the putty tools. This was a mistake at the time imho.
> > Shall we correct for that? Or is upstream already defaulting to plink2?
> > This would then give us p-link and plink2 as executables. Hurts.
> >
> 
> 
> The upstream devs always name the new binary "plink" but they recommend to
> rename it to "plink2" and the old plink to "plink1" to avoid the name
> conflict. So, I rename the binary plink2 for the new version and maybe we
> can also rename the first plink from "p-link" to "plink1" with a symbolic
> link to "p-link" to avoid problem for our users which already use the name
> "p-link". What do you think?

Sounds good.

In addition I would recommend to teach upstream again about the name
clash with putty tools.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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