Name change proposal for rmic, rmiregistry and jar

Bryce McKinlay mckinlay@redhat.com
Tue Jun 22 17:46:00 GMT 2004


Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:

>I propose that we rename rmic to grmic, rmiregistry to grmiregistry and
>jar (back to?) to fastjar.
>
>Currently, these tools' names conflict with jpackage.org packaging
>conventions, which dictate that /usr/bin/rmic, /usr/bin/rmiregistry and
>/usr/bin/jar must be alternatives-managed symlinks.
>
>Likely some people are relying on the names of these gcj-installed
>tools.  Packagers will have to create symlinks if they want to provide a
>smooth transition to the new names.
>
>Any objections?
>  
>

I think this is ok. I'm not sure about calling jar "fastjar", however - 
yes this package was originally called fastjar, but "gjar" would be more 
consistent with the other tools, IMO.

Do you have a patch? :)

Regards

Bryce



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