On 06/15/2010 02:37 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:00, Umang Varma <umang...@gmail.com> wrote: >> As a not-so-experienced person, I shouldn't have a say in this, but I >> feel that it is far too general a name to use. I'm sure there are many >> scripts that do something related to google, not all can be called 'google'. > > Indeed, I spotted that only after reply was sent: given the package is > called googlecl, I'd say just call the bin googlecl.
This is confusing. First, Google seems to have it's own Debian package [1] and it hasn't made the source of that package available. I don't know what Google's track record with packaging/building/etc is (Chrome != Chromium, etc), so I don't know what they hope to achieve by hosting the a .deb as a download and not letting other access the source. A Debian maintainer will not blindly apply them, but it could serve as a starting point. Secondly, Google itself wants the bin to be called `google`. [2] Since the official project page [3] and documentation [4] says `$ google foo bar`, making end-users call `$ googlecl foo bar` may confuse them. Particularly so if they use something like the Ubuntu Software Center (which is the default newbie's package manager on Debian as `gnome` now depends on it) where they're unlikely to read the description - if at all the description is allowed to have such a warning. PS: I am subscribed to d-ment...@l.d.o, so no need to CC me. :-) [1]: http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/downloads/detail?name=googlecl_0.9.5-1_all.deb&can=2&q= [2]: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/06/introducing-google-command-line-tool.html [3]: http://code.google.com/p/googlecl [4]: http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/wiki/ExampleScripts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c1cb461.2080...@gmail.com
