Waldek Hebisch wrote:
Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Prof A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) wrote:
or "cgp"?
Hmm, doesn't seem to be taken, at least in Debian ...
Perhaps we could use this then?
Objections, anyone?
Matthias, would it be ok for Debian?
I do not understand why you press for very short name. Such name is typically meanigless (for me "cgp" is meanigless),
Compile (with) GNU Pascal.
and as I wrote hard to search for. I would say that a person who do not want to type three additional characters in program name is likely to drop Pascal for a language where `begin' is repleced by a single character.
After many "complaints" I've seen so far over the years, I think it's *very* important for new potential users that the first steps are as easy as possible. Even a longer name might be deterring. (Maybe sad, but true.)
For me `gpmake' sounds almost perfect. I have a checked various languages and most do not try to use very short names. In fact I have a bunch of `xmake' programs which either generate makefiles or work as make replacement for a given language.
As I said, I don't think "make" is a good thing to think of for a *normal* Pascal programmer. We're, of course, deep in the internals, but a normal programm doesn't want to (and shouldn't have to) think about when a compiler recreates which files. It should just produce a correct executable.
Frank