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Binary name (st) conflicts with simple terminal (st) #6

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darkshram opened this issue Feb 7, 2023 · 4 comments
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Binary name (st) conflicts with simple terminal (st) #6

darkshram opened this issue Feb 7, 2023 · 4 comments

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@darkshram
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Binary name conflicts with suckless.org Simple Terminal.

@mohd-akram mohd-akram changed the title Binary name (st) conflcits with simple terminal (st). Binary name (st) conflicts with simple terminal (st) Feb 7, 2023
@mohd-akram
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Not sure what can be done about this. I got the name from the pdp7-unix repo, and presumably that was the actual name of the binary, and given that Space Travel started this whole thing, it probably has dibs. I would recommend aliasing either the terminal or the game's binary. Thanks for bringing it to light though, I wasn't aware of it.

@realcharmer
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It'd be best if this were to use the name space-travel or something similar. This goes for both the repository and binary name. Keeping the legacy binary name is not really necessary and it would easily solve this naming conflict.

@mohd-akram
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TBF, st was already taken before simple terminal came along - in Debian and FreeBSD the package is called stterm and sterm respectively, which are better names that match terminal naming convention. This repository aims to mirror the original code very closely, and the name is part of that so I'm not keen on changing it. For packaging purposes, it is fairly trivial to install it with a different name since it's just one file, although I'm not sure what's a good alternative name (space-travel is too long IMO for the binary).

@realcharmer
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Fair enough, thanks.

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