Name change proposal for rmic, rmiregistry and jar

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