gEDA-dev: geda naming convention

[Bert Timmerman]

Hi Igor2 and all,

On my FC5 box the /usr/bin/geda binary has attributes like:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 166480 Apr  2  2006 /usr/bin/geda

Since I'm using "gEDA/gschem version 1.0.1-20070626" for production, I
suspect the binary is a stale file left from a "make install" on some
development version in the past.

Other than the file date, running the binary gives no information or
clues.

As discussed on #geda maybe rename the binary to geda-project-manager as
that seems to be the function the layout of the application advocates,
and keep the name of your script (without the ".sh" suffix).

BTW: Running with "/usr/bin/geda --version" would be a polite way to
tell the user which (package) version the file belongs to.

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 05:14 +0100, Igor2 wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, al davis wrote:
> 
> >On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Dan McMahill wrote:
> >> just beware that /bin/sh on most (all?) linux systems is in
> >> fact bash.
> >
> >The NET-BSD version of /bin/sh is available on Linux (at least 
> >Debian) as /bin/ash or /bin/dash .
> 
> I used dash and bash for testing the first version so it should work on
> any posix shell. It would be cool if some non-linux users could try it.
> 
> Btw, it seems that the name /usr/bin/geda collides with a geda suite
> binary so we need a different name for the script.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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