Re: [ANNOUNCE] yap: Yet Another (Git) Porcelain

From: Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 6, 2008, 20:04 UTC
Message-ID: <e06498070809061304v368faf66tf5e5a153212306a8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200809062101.28672.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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>> To my knowledge, Pyrite does not support plugins.
>
> As far as I know Pyrite is one-man work.  Why not to join efforts,
> bringing those two projects together?  Both share the same language,
> Python.

That's an interesting idea and something I'd like to pursue.

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> By the way, please take into account
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yap_(disambiguation)
>
> Most commonly known YAP is I think Yet Another Previewer, which is
> the name of the DVI viewer included on the widely used MiKTeX TeX
> distribution for the Microsoft Windows platform,
>
> YAGP, or YA(G)P, is I think free of such conotations.

I was not aware of that. I'm not firmly attached to the name I've chosen, but I would like the command to remain short (2-3 letters). Maybe call it YAGP and use "yg" for the command?

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