From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Lee Green To: esr@thyrsus.com, Mark Galassi Cc: Docbook Tools discussion list Subject: Re: new tools coming and a couple of renamings Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 06:36:00 -0000 Message-id: <00072106383601.17361@ehome.inhouse> References: <76g0p4w09h.fsf@odie.lanl.gov> <20000721032257.F14571@thyrsus.com> X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00294.html On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, esr@thyrsus.com wrote: > Mark Galassi : > > So my proposal is to deprecate the db2* names in favor of the > > docbook2* names. This phase-out would be extremely slow, since > > thousands of build procedures use the db2* scripts now. > > something to do with databases. Removing ambiguity is good. On the > other hand, it's proper Unix tradition to have short names for a > reason -- it saves typing for hapless fumble-fingers like me. 'db' is too much like a database name. 'docbook' is too long. How about "docb"? as in, "docb2html" etc.? Yeah, it's just 3 characters shorter, but it appears to be the shortest unambiguous name... clearly says the command has something to do with docs, and the b is clue enough that it's dealing with docbook. Alternately, "doc2html" etc... hmm... bit ambigous there. Might make me think it's a generic x-format doc to html translater.... -- Eric Lee Green There is No Conspiracy eric@badtux.org http://www.badtux.org