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Re: tclsh83.exe should be cygtclsh83.exe


William A. Hoffman wrote:
I recently ran setup, and one of the new packages, I think gdb, caused
a tclsh83.exe to be installed into /usr/bin.   It would be nice if
this were a full working tclsh83.exe, but it is not.    However, it conflicted
with the working tclsh83.exe I already had in my path.   Shouldn't the
name of this by cygtclsh83.exe?
No. Are you suggesting that all 508 of the .exe's in my /bin should really be named "cyg*.exe"? "cyglynx" "cygman" "cygless" just because they MIGHT conflict with a mingw or native version of less.exe or man.exe?

If that is NOT what you are suggestion -- e.g. that only tclsh83 should be renamed -- why? Why is tclsh83 special?

It's easy to avoid executable PATH conflicts -- just make sure the tclsh you want appears in the PATH before the one you don't like. End of problem.

--Chuck

P.S. Now, we *do* name all DLL's with a special 'cyg' prefix, but that is because DLLs are a much more complicated problem than EXEs (memory resident, etc etc)


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