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Suggestion: shorter programme name in command line #22

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Badboy-16 opened this issue May 30, 2021 · 1 comment
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Suggestion: shorter programme name in command line #22

Badboy-16 opened this issue May 30, 2021 · 1 comment
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@Badboy-16
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It's such a pleasure to use and work on this amazing project and thanks @ibLeDy for your work. 馃帀

Just a suggested change from my experience of working on this project.

I sometimes find the programme name (timezone-converter) too long to type in the command line when testing my PR or running the programme. It would be nice to use a shorter name like tz-conv or tz-convert (can be anything). The current repo name can still remain unchanged.

For example, timezone-converter --list can possibly be tz-conv --list

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ibLeDy commented May 30, 2021

Thank you for your kind words!

I have thought exactly the same a couple of times, and sometimes I wonder if adding an extra, shorter entry point would be a good option (it would be easy, we just need to add a line here).

However, I always end up with the feeling that it is not the best option, as the user can easily create an alias. For example, in Unix-based systems, the user would add a line like this one to it's shell config file:

alias tz-conv="timezone-converter"

In Windows it is a bit different, but it can be done

With that said, I don't think it would hurt to add the entry point (the tough part is the naming, as always).

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