[racket-dev] potentially renaming /usr/bin/planet to /usr/bin/planet-racket in Debian

It will stay 'as is' for this release. But we intend to deprecate 'planet' so that people begin to switch to 'raco planet'. -- Matthias



On Jul 30, 2012, at 9:43 AM, Doug Williams wrote:

> I have some scripts that still use planet. I use development links as
> a substitute for a local PLaneT-like capability and have scripts to do
> this for me. Some of these are on production servers. I would create
> an alias for it anyway, but would rather it stayed as is.
> 
> Doug
> 
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The Racket core distribution has already started deprecating the
>> 'planet' command in favour of going through the 'raco' command and the
>> 'planet' subcommand:
>> 
>> raco planet ...
>> 
>> rather than
>> 
>> planet ...
>> 
>> The current documentation does not refer to the 'planet' command at all.
>> 
>> If users are still using it, then an alias would be sufficient, since
>> it is unlikely that programs (certainly none in the Racket
>> distribution) call 'planet' directly.
>> 
>> Jay
>> 
>> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 1:46 PM, David Bremner <bremner at debian.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi All;
>>> 
>>> We're currently trying to figure out the right way to handle a name
>>> conflict in Debian between racket and an rss aggregator named
>>> planet-venus.
>>> 
>>>        http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680685
>>> 
>>> I don't use the command /usr/bin/planet myself, so I was wondering if
>>> anybody could explain the likely disruption caused by (hypothetically)
>>> renaming it. In particular is it likely to be somether where people are
>>> using it from scripts or cron jobs, or would making a shell alias
>>> (alias planet planet-racket) suffice to avoid retraining fingers?
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> David
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
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>> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay
>> 
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