[gmx-developers] rename all gromacs programs?

[Mark Abraham]

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From: David van der Spoel <spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se>
Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 22:47
Subject: Re: [gmx-developers] rename all gromacs programs?
To: Discussion list for GROMACS development <gmx-developers at gromacs.org>

> On 6/8/10 2:01 PM, chris.neale at utoronto.ca wrote:
> >Perhaps also add a --link-old-names option to the makefile that would
> >automatically, for example, "ln -s g_trjconv trjconv" for users 
> that for
> >some reason can't update their scripts?
> >
> 
> Hm, we want to make stuff simpler to maintain, not more complex, 
> so it would be good to not mess up makefiles even more. Therefor 
> I'd rather provide a script than modify makefiles for this.

Yes.

As a side reason for choosing "g_" rather than "gmx_", Jussi's RPMs use "g_" to prefix some of the tools whose executables namesclash with other packages.

Should gmxdump and gmxcheck become g_dump and g_check? mdrun become g_mdrun?

Mark

> >Quoting "Esztermann, Ansgar" <Ansgar.Esztermann at mpi-bpc.mpg.de>:
> >
> >>On Jun 7, 2010, at 17:23 , David van der Spoel wrote:
> >>>
> >>>Two possibilities are more obvious than others:
> >>>1. g_XXX
> >>>2. gmx_XXX
> >>
> >>I posit that shorter is better, so I'd go for 1.
> >>
> >>
> >>A.
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