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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon schollz

Different name for the server binary - help choose the name!

Open gabeguz opened this issue 8 years ago • 3 comments

find is the name of an ubiquitous and well known unix command. Would you ever consider renaming the resulting binary to something else in order to avoid conflicts and confusion?

gabeguz avatar Apr 19 '16 20:04 gabeguz

Yes. I want to do this badly. The trouble is choosing a name. Lets open a discussion here to help rename.

Note, please check possible names for Trademark infringement here before you suggest. There are many great names already taken :(

schollz avatar Apr 19 '16 20:04 schollz

I think the "find" name itself is fine, but perhaps the server binary could be called:

findd (find daemon) or find-server?

so when you install it on your $PATH it doesn't conflict with the find binary that already exists on most unix systems.

gabeguz avatar Apr 19 '16 21:04 gabeguz

That's good. Its easy to change the name when building the binary. However the repo name change might have some benefits:

  • You could install via go get github.com/schollz/newname. Right now you have a path collision like you mentioned and mentioned here: https://github.com/schollz/find/issues/32.
  • The current name is a bit hard to search for (SEO)
  • The current name has an inaccurate connotation for most people, since "find" is typically associated with a program that finds files

schollz avatar Apr 19 '16 21:04 schollz