On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 12:08:20PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 02:00:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > The binary is going to have to be renamed - even if you use an > > alternative there'll still be a renamed binary there. > > yes, but the user would only need to know in the even that they had both > alternatives installed, which I don't see happening very often.
This means that the result of using "xplot" is unpredictable. Something that worked yesterday can break tomorrow because the sysadmin installed a new package. That's not a good situation. > > Would it be possible to massage the data format for one xplot into the > > other or modify one to accept the input of the other in a compatibility > > mode? > > Possibly, but why create more work for the user? I think it's _less_ work for the user if you can have one xplot program which replaces both of the current ones. Richard Braakman
