From: Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
Cc: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@cygnus.com>,
Mo DeJong <mdejong@cygnus.com>,
insight@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: TODO list (REPOST)
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001011123952.A2529@visi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r95nth6y.fsf@creche.cygnus.com>
> Fernando> Yes, that is the idea. A modification in Mo's patch that
> Fernando> will default to -w if the name contains "insight" and to -nw
> Fernando> otherwise would do that.
>
> The GNU Coding Standards ask that the program's behavior not depend on
> the name of the program:
>
> Please don't make the behavior of a utility depend on the name used
> to invoke it. It is useful sometimes to make a link to a utility with
> a different name, and that should not change what it does.
Eh? Aren't there are other gnu utilities that do different
things depending on the name used to invoke them? gzip, gunzip,
zcat, for example?
--
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-11 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-10 8:21 Fernando Nasser
2000-10-10 23:15 ` Mo DeJong
2000-10-11 6:25 ` Grant Edwards
2000-10-11 6:54 ` Fernando Nasser
2000-10-11 10:26 ` Tom Tromey
2000-10-11 10:38 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2000-10-11 10:39 ` Mo DeJong
2000-10-11 14:17 ` Mo DeJong
2000-10-11 14:44 ` Fernando Nasser
2000-10-11 14:53 ` Mo DeJong
2000-10-11 15:03 ` Fernando Nasser
2000-10-11 15:31 ` Fix to Breakpoint right-click menu bug [Was: TODO list (REPOST)] Fernando Nasser
2000-10-11 14:56 ` RMS in the press " Fernando Nasser
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