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marcosnils / bin

Effortless binary manager
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Change the tool name to binmgr #112

Closed ghost closed 2 years ago

ghost commented 2 years ago

Hi,

I may suggest to change the tool name to binmgr or bin-manager or anything else, but not bin.

bin is very common in linux, it can refer to lots of things in linux.

marcosnils commented 2 years ago

bin is very common in linux, it can refer to lots of things in linux.

can you provide some examples? I've searched in the most popular distro package managers (centos, arch, debian) and there's no bin package.

ghost commented 2 years ago

No of course. What I meant is bin refers mostly to a binary path. Tools usually have a complete name like binwalk or bingrep.

Your tool is awesome by the way, but its name means nothing, "bin what"

That's why binmgr, bin-manager, or bindl (bin downloader) has a meaning, it can even be added to debian repositories

marcosnils commented 2 years ago

Your tool is awesome by the way, but its name means nothing, "bin what"

Thx!

I like the name because it's short, easy to type and no other tool is using it. Thanks for bringing up the idea but I don't have intentions to change unless several people request it since I personally find it comfortable to use.

In any case, if you find it annoying, you can always create an alias.

I'll close this since there's nothing else relevant to elaborate here.

ghost commented 2 years ago

No problem, the alias idea is great

Thank you :)