Re: more overly-generic package names from gnustep
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 01:54:59AM -0800, Number Six wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:56:48PM -0800, Benj. Mako Hill wrote:
> > Programs would be better served to give themselves an original name,
> > descriptive where possible, and leave the generic names for aliases
> > or, where appropriate, alternatives.
>
> So, again, as I said in the '/etc/friendlynames' thread, you therefore
> conclude that ImageMagick's 'display' and GNUSteps 'viewpdf' are
> following a bad practice. We have to live with it because they are
> 800-lb, 800-year old gorillas, but small fry need not expect the same
> kind of treatment.
Yes, they are following a bad practice, but I would hardly consider those
examples to be immutable.
(view(1), on the other hand, really is as old as the hills, and therefore
immutable)
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- mdz
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