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Re: New auxiliary archive script


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: New auxiliary archive script
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 17:53:25 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2010-04-22)

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 08:03:56AM CEST:
> Darn, we need another name: 'archive' is likely too common when automake
> is going to put all files with that name in the distribution of each
> package using Automake.  No need to send another patch, but any other
> good suggestions that fit in with the existing scripts?
> 
> I don't find arlib so bad, except that it sounds a bit like a library
> rather than a program.

arlib is already taken by some package of that name; let's go with
ar-lib which seems unused, judging from codesearch, fairly close to
the original suggestion, and hyphens are sort of GNU-ish anyway.  ;-)

That is, unless you dislike it.

Thanks,
Ralf



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