Re: [Monotone-devel] renaming monotone executable (again)

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:18:58 +1100, Daniel Carosone 
<address@hidden> said:

dan> On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 04:15:53AM -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
dan> >   -- Having a single, standard abbrev is very useful.  If, for
dan> >      instance, we switch the command name to "mtn", we should also (I
dan> >      suggest):
dan> >        -- make the bookkeeping directory MTN (instead of MT)
dan> 
dan> If this is to change, let's please use .MTN (or equivalent for
dan> the eventual name), and make it selectable by a hook in
dan> ~/monotone/monotonerc or the environment.

Uhmm, please no.  A dot file like that is a portability nightmare,
trust me (I'm still planning on porting to VMS if I can, I just got to
find the time to upgrade the C++ compiler).

Cheers,
Richard

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