On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Joey Hess wrote: > I suggest we add the following to policy section 11.4. > (Wording by Bill Allombert.) > > When scripts are installed into into a directory in the system PATH, > the script name should not include an extension such as .sh or .pl > that denotes the scripting language currently used to implement it. > > This was previously discussed on the thread entited > "policy should frown on programs in PATH with language extentions (ie, .pl)" > on the debian-policy list. I will leave off the full rationalle, which > is in the first message of that thread. The short version is that using > this sort of name seems to be becoming more prevelant, and that it > asks for problems when a program is reimplemented, and makes it harder to > type command names. > > I am looking for seconds to this proposal.
Seconded. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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