On Sat, 9 Dec 2017, Christian Brunello Christian Brunello <mail.krist...@yahoo.it> wrote:
Hello everyone, I write because I would like to rename the GNU fdisk package. In the version I am preparing, the program is written in Scheme, using Guile. In this release there will be only the fdisk program, but in the future I want to add more. So a more generic name would be appropriate. I discussed this with Richard Stallman, and the volunteers on the ment...@gnu.org list. Since the package is based on GUILE, we consider using the name "Guile Diskutils". We wanted to know what you think of this name. -- Christian Brunello
I have forgotten when I first used the present program called "fdisk". I use it only on systems with the Linux kernel and all *nix utilities being GNU utilities. Recently I use it one day a week on several systems, mainly to check that I know what drives are plugged into which computers. So I mainly do fdisk -l I am for keeping the name "fdisk" for the new GUILE-LISP POWERED HYPERDRIVE MANIPULATOR. To me, fdisk feels like a basic standard utility, like ed^WEmacs. So the name should remain the same even unto and beyond the day it works by teleporting the drive to Frolix-8 and asking our friends there to do the work. When fdisk becomes a small, but always foundational!, part of the new GNU collection of low level data mungers, its info page should have a section presenting the Scheme theoretic techniques used to build all the parts of the package. oo--JS.
