Re: Tool renames? was Re: First stab at glossary

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sep 5, 2005, 16:04 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509050902070.3568@evo.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <u5tvf1feedt.fsf@lysator.liu.se>

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, David Kågedal wrote:

> 
> But to the users (like myself), there's no point in naming it by
> whether it's a script or a binary.

So? There's no downside.

To you, as a user, you never see the "-script" ending anyway. You'd never type it out, or you're already doing something wrong.

So to users it doesn't matter, and to developers it _does_ matter (and calling them ".pl" or ".sh" or something would be _bad_), why not please the developers?

> So your argument that it makes it easier for git developers to work
> with the source doesn't help the user.

It doesn't _help_ the user, but since it doesn't hurt him either, why the hell would we even _care_ about the user?

		Linus

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