On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 03:12:29PM -0400, kcr@debian.org wrote: > > That sounds ugly though - having an alternative for something that does > > entirely different stuff. Isn't it possible to rather rename the "new" > > version of xplot to, say, xtcpplot or something? > > That would be very silly since Tim's xplot is a very useful general-purpose > tool. Not only that, but the docs for xplot and tools like tcptrace would have to be updated to avoid horrible confusion... > This won't be the last time something like this happens, we should come up > with a reasonable general response. This is pretty much why I didn't package Tim's xplot when working on my tcptrace package... It was too much ugliness to deal with that the time. 8^( noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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