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Ticket #36 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 18 years ago

Last modified 18 years ago

Consider name change.

Reported by: dpc Assigned to: derek
Priority: Important Component: core
Version: 3.03 Severity: minor
Keywords: Cc: dawid.ciezarkiewicz@gmail.com

Description

build is rather common and collision prone name. I'm not even talking about googlin' it. In *nix environments you can expect other tools to use "build" binary or Linux user to use build as an alias or something like that.

While I'm doing D-related packages for ArchLinux? - I can say that many package maintainers (especially those with maaany packages) will change binary name from build to something else. The problems is - it should be one, standard name. It is very important for feature build/configure scripts to use one hardcoded name that will not change. Imagine that debian people will rename build to dbuild and suse to dlang-build. Building project using build will be mess then - no simple instructions can be give to common linux user and dummy Makefiles (that will just run build transparently will get complicated. Things gets complicated -> D fans loose much.

If build wants to be standard D tool on Linux it has to change binary name and stay with it.

Change History

07/28/06 22:16:19 changed by dpc

  • cc set to dawid.ciezarkiewicz@gmail.com.

08/09/06 01:53:55 changed by Derek Parnell

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

The executable name has been changed to 'bud' however the project is still known as 'Build'.