Re: symlinks to programs

[Collin Funk]

Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:

>> If people are actually using gnulib-tool via this symlink trick then we 
>> should keep supporting it.
>
> The documentation has been describing this approach for 15 years.
> Therefore it is guaranteed that a number of people use this symlink trick.

FWIW I use it like this. I also have symlinks to gnulib-tool.sh and
gnulib-tool.py since they were easier to invoke than using the
environment variable. I think there was a short period of time that the
output wasn't diff'ed when using GNULIB_TOOL_IMPL.

Collin