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From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
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Subject: Re: Naming of executable
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On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Martin Cracauer wrote:

> 
> Realated to the last question, what is FreeBSD's policy to name
> executables? 
> 
> Especially Scheme implementations tend to use short, meaningless names
> that probably will cause conflicts with other ports. Additionally, it
> is not obvious what the file is.
> 
> For myself, I have symbolic links from the short native names to more
> meaningful ones. Suppose I have scm, stk, siod and scsh installed,
> then I make symbolic links to scheme-scm, scheme-stk, scheme-siod und
> scheme-scsh. I leave the original names intact. This scheme helps me
> to keep an overview of Scheme implementations I installed. Looking at
> the symbolic link, I can also tell which of the short names are scheme
> implementations.
> 
> Could you please drop me notes on the following questions:
> 
> - Am I resposible to install binaries under names that are not used by
>   other ports or is it bad luck if the user overwrites?
> 
> - Should I create links to <lang-name>-<imp-name> as show above?

Why not install with only the long name?

	Sander

> 
> Thanks
> 	Martin
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