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inplace: new program

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Cc: 13028 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler <at> dwheeler.com>
Subject: bug#13028: inplace
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 14:42:04 +0100

On 16/05/16 14:15, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> On 29 November 2012 at 19:16, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com> wrote:
>
>> On 11/29/2012 07:03 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>>
>>> On 29 November 2012 15:35, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I definitely think this is worthwhile.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Great!
>>>
>>>
>>> Where to put such a script is an issue.
>>>> We were thinking of a contrib/ folder for higher level
>>>> scripts like this that could leverage coreutils/
>>>> Translations in the shell script was one thing that was
>>>> I was wondering about, which I need to look at.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Is there a reason it can't be shipped so it'll install as part of
>>> coreutils?
>>>
>>
>> Well contrib/ in upstream to be installed in standard locations.
>>
>> rewrite is my favorite name so far.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> It sounds better, but I'd favour "inplace" as it's the term used by most
>>> utilities, like Perl and sed, that already provide such a built-in
>>> facility, and is hence more easily discovered.
>>>
>>
>> Previous notes on naming:
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-03/msg00238.html
>>
>> "rewrite" is more descriptive as a verb as to what is actually happening.
>> We can finalize on the naming anyway when we have the implementation
>> sorted.
>>
>
> ​Did this get anywhere?

Nothing public unfortunately.

Pádraig

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