[MCOL-4058] Binary naming scheme non-standard: commands have capital letters and generic names Created: 2020-06-15 Updated: 2023-10-25 |
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| Status: | Open |
| Project: | MariaDB ColumnStore |
| Component/s: | None |
| Affects Version/s: | None |
| Fix Version/s: | 23.10 |
| Type: | Bug | Priority: | Minor |
| Reporter: | Otto Kekäläinen | Assignee: | Unassigned |
| Resolution: | Unresolved | Votes: | 0 |
| Labels: | None | ||
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| Description |
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For example:
Usually on Unix systems all commands are only in small caps. In addition, these binary names are very generic. Nothing in the name implies MariaDB or Column Store. How about naming them like
These are just examples. I hope you get the hang of it. I was not able to find some standards document on how binaries are supposed to be named. I browsed quickly https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/lsb.shtml but found no guidelines there. |
| Comments |
| Comment by Roman [ 2020-06-15 ] |
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Very good point. However we preserve the binaries for backward compatibility for the client's automation until MCS 1.6 but add aliases. |