Re: [PATCH] rename jar, rmic and rmiregistry

[Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim at redhat dot com>]

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 16:51, Michael Koch wrote:
> Am Freitag, 16. Juli 2004 22:32 schrieb Thomas Fitzsimmons:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This patch renames the jar, rmic and rmiregistry tools to gjar,
> > grmic and grmiregistry.  This prevents naming conflicts with other
> > implementations of the same tools.  In particular, these names are
> > problematic for the jpackage.org packaging conventions which
> > install symlinks in /usr/bin that point to the preferred versions
> > of these tools.
> 
> Why gjar and not fastjar ? fastjar would be more appropriate I think.
> 

I polled java@gcc.gnu.org a month ago, and people liked gjar better
because they thought is was more in-line with how our other tools are
named.  Personally, I like gjar, because it suggests that it is a free
implementation of jar, whereas fastjar sounds like a different tool
altogether.

Tom

> 
> Michael