Re: Mercury compiler (policy, anybody)?

[Milan Zamazal <pdm@fi.muni.cz>]

>>>>> "TL" == Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk> writes:

    TL: On 24 Feb 1997, Milan Zamazal wrote:

    :: 1. (Policy question): Mercury contains binary `mc', which is
    :: the same name as for popular Midnight Commander binary.  I
    :: didn't like to see such a stupid conflict between mercury and
    :: mc only because their binaries have the same name.  Is there
    :: some solution of this problem?

    TL: Change the name of mercury to mcc or add mercury_ as a prefix
    TL: (if it uses autoconf, do `configure
    TL: --program-prefix=mercury_'), or call it simply "mercury" (if
    TL: that's the name of the package, why not?).

    TL: Midnight commander should get the because:-

    TL: 	1. The package is called "mc". People expect the
    TL: binary to be called that.

    TL: 	2. It's more popular.

    TL: 	3. It's already in the distribution.

OK.  May be something like that should be added to the policy manual?

Milan Zamazal