Re: .py suffixed scripts to /usr/bin/
On Thu, 31 Oct 2013, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > the hurdle again is that those then would/could conflict with the names
> > of the now non-free MNE toolkit, which ships files with the same names.
> Sounds like both packages should pick new names
well -- in their universe they have no problem to fix really ;)
original binaries have no suffixes, and for Python counter-parts they
have .py suffixes thus making it easy for users to disambiguate between
the two. Also since .py are for the Python project, it is unlikely that
their suffixes would break the correspondence with the underlying
implementation language (which is one of the major motivators to have no
implementation specific suffixes under /usr/bin)
> and/or install into
> their own directories and the "interface" names be managed using
> alternatives.
they differ in their "cmdline API" so alternatives are not appropriate
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