Matthias Klose wrote:
looking at
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=%2Fgp&searchm...
I find another gp program. Renaming it to gpm is worse, pmake is the NetBSD make, what about gpmake?
Too long IMHO. Also "make" is rather a term from the "C world". A normal Pascal programmer (especially one who hasn't used GPC before) isn't expected to know about making etc. Rather, a Pascal compiler ("processor" in ISO terms) is expected to deal with modules ("programÂÂcomponent") just as any other parts of a Pascal program.
Waldek Hebisch wrote:
There is a problem if two packages try to install a file with the same name. Concerning GPC: it is mostly problem for projects you mention since Gnu Pascal is already there (note that GNOME Photo Collector according to web site changed name for installed files to `gphotocoll').
With gp situation is different: I was using gp/pari from time to time in last 8 years (rarely enough that I did not remember about name conflict) and the project is probably older.
By the way, short names looks like a suicide in Google times (try to find out what 'V' or 'M' is :).
Google might be too broad, since it doesn't find only program names. We could look for other suitable names that don't occur in the Debian file list, e.g.
If we don't find anything suitable (say, <= 3 letters and making sense), I suggest to rename the gpc executable to something longer and call gp gpc. This will, of course, require some incompatible changes, but I'd rather have the future recommended way of using GPC to have the more "comfortable" and easy to use name while the "old style" and C compatible plain interface (which will probably mostly occur in legacy Makefiles then) can have a longer name (probably starting with `gpc').
Frank