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Re: [ITP] bashdb, bash_completion
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Reini Urban wrote:
> Yaakov Selkowitz schrieb:
> > Reini Urban wrote:
> > | I updated bash-2.05b-rebash to use Pierre's PID-reuse patch from today.
> > | This is named "bashdb" in suse, and includced in debian's bash-3 so I
> > | would need just a GTG. (or a better name suggestion)
> > http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/bash-2.05b-rebash/bash-2.05b-rebash-0.43-2.tar.bz2
> > http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/bash-2.05b-rebash/bash-2.05b-rebash-0.43-2-src.tar.bz2
> > | http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/bash-2.05b-rebash/setup.hint
> >
> > If I'm not mistaken, I don't think setup.exe/upset will like such a
> > package name "bash-2.05b-rebash". I think every part of the package
> > name (after each hyphen) must start with a letter (unlike the version
> > part, which must start with a number).
>
> ok. then it should be bashdb.
>
> > In any case, I'd be weary of having two packages with colliding files.
> > Is there some way to work around this?
>
> nope.
> persuade ronald to add it. Or I could drop my ITP and keep it at my site
> for the fearless ones.
Sure there is -- name the executable "bashdb.exe", and let the users call
it explicitly.
Igor
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