On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Charles Plessy wrote:
If there is no technical concern, I would suggest that your binary would be named SixPACK, to match what is used on upstream's website. I would be rather reluctant to rename the sixpack binary of EMBOSS, as it is a software suite which is very command-line oriented, in the Unix way : many small programs fitting one task. EMBOSS users will definitely not expect sixpack to be renamed. In addition, their scripts would be broken. How is the case of sixpack for XAS? Is it used in command line, or will it be called from a menu ?
Hi Charles, Sorry for the delay in responding.I would not object to this as SixPACK would most likely be run from a menu, rather than a command line (except by geeks like me!). My only concern is whether having an executable name with capitals is against policy. I don't see anything in the manual to this effect but on my system I only see one such program AbiWord-2.4 and then there is a link to it from "abiword".
I would prefer, however, to keep the package name as "sixpack" rather than change it. I don't think this would cause you too many problems as your package name is completely different.
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