[PATCH]Resolve file name conflicts in inn-2.5.3.

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi Russ,

> Really, all of the auth programs should have had an inn-* prefix
> originally.  I'm not sure whether it's worth renaming them unless someone
> reports a specific problem, though.

OK, let's then keep names as they currently are.  We will have a look
in case someone reports a problem.



> history and expire should, in retrospect, have had less generic names, but
> they've been called that in netnews systems for forever, and I think it's
> too late to rename them now.  On those, INN actually has precedence over
> anyone else who wants to use the name (unlike with the radius.conf, where
> we're a newcomer and clased with an existing file name).

OK.

Note that GNU ships a history.3readline.gz man page:

% man -f history
history (3readline)  - GNU History Library
history (5)          - record of current and recently expired Usenet articles

Hopefully it is not a history(5) file too!



> If I were redesigning the entire INN command-line interface from scratch
> right now, I'd probably do what Git does: have an inn command used for all
> maintenance interaction with the news server that takes a variety of
> subcommands (that are stored outside of the path) and that are documented
> in man pages named inn-<subcommand>.  Modern versions of the man program
> support converting the command "man git commit" into viewing the
> git-commit(1) man page.  But this isn't the sort of thing that I think one
> does retroactively; now, it would just confuse all the existing INN
> installations without a lot of benefit.
> 
> Namespacing is one of those things people used to be much less careful
> about when the total number of packages available was a lot smaller and
> everyone installed things from source.

Thanks for having shared your view about the subject.  Pretty interesting.

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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