Re: new tools coming and a couple of renamings

[esr@thyrsus.com]

Mark Galassi <rosalia@galassi.org>:
> 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.
> 
> Anyone wanna contribute an opinion?

What?  You want to make me type six whole extra letters for *each* *name*?

:-)

Seriously, I would probably be firm that it ain't worth the hassle if
it weren't for the fact that that "db" prefix looks like it has
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.

So I'm just a touch on the negative side of neutral on this one.  We'd
say "-0" in Python-land.
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