Name change proposal for rmic, rmiregistry and jar

Tue Jun 22 18:50:00 GMT 2004

On Tue, 2004年06月22日 at 12:24, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> 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.
>
OK.
> Do you have a patch? :)
>
Not yet. I'll send one soon.
Tom