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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

> With all due respect, I'd like to oppose such attitude. I bet you won't
> be happy if tomorrow your favorite spell gets renamed, or I publish your
>  PHP-Nuke under name phpn in my section because I can logically reason
> why I did that, or I ask on the list and receive no responses against
> such name change except one -- yours. You as a spell creator here are
> more important than anybody.
> In the same vein, maintaining little-changed interface for users is
> important. Users as a mass are not supposed to have active attitude,
> although they're welcome to. My issue is that to change system interface
>  to behave differently, like bind new action to the old button, you have
>  to get substantial voices for it, not just reasoning. If Debian changed
>  name of apt, or some apt options, now, would it make Debian users
> happy?  Larry Wall wants to change regex in Perl 6 so that frequently
> used  things are shorter to type, and it gets him a hell of  patience
> and  evangelism to even make people think about that.
> `Sorcery update' now is orthogonal to `sorcery update' which I'm used
> to, and I don't like it. But I'm trying to comply and suggest that,
> following Nick's logic, scribe then has to be primary command to
> schedule and cast spells that need updating. Why not to follow the
> change all the way through and make things orderly again?
> Thanks for listening,
>
> Sergey.

Wow, very good points Sergey.  :)  Can I switch bandwagons?

Seriously, though, perhaps we should map this out better.  I really don't
care what naming conventions we use, as long as they are not as long as
your earlier example.  ;)  I'm not lazy only to a point.

Nick, thoughts, reasoning?

-One of Four
a.k.a. sandalle

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