[plt-dev] renaming programs in the distribution

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
> Anyone see a solution that lets `racket' work for everything? Or does
> this mean that we really are forced to have at least two main
> executables?

One advantage of having two commands is that the interface is easier
for external tools to work with.  For example, Stevie and I recently
wrote a bash completion script for `racket' and `rico', which allows
tab completion for things like this:

> rico p<tab>
pack planet

> racket --no-
--no-compiled   --no-init-file  --no-lib

If we combined them in the way you've suggested, the tab completion
for the subcommands wouldn't work nearly as well.
-- 
sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu