Feature Request: rename main executable to lowercase

[markc]

Would it be possible to officially rename the SilkJS binary to silkjs (or even just silk)?

Debian/Ubuntu and Archlinux will probably do this anyway and the binary installation packages will be all lowercase as well.

Related is an install target in the Makefile so make INSTALL_ROOT= or DESTDIR= will place the executable and examples some where they can be packaged.

[mschwartz]

See Install.js. I figure why not use SIlkJS to install itself on your system? It can do the logic to figure out where your flavor of Linux (or OSX) installs things... If you want to submit a Package.js script that creates your packaging directories, it'll probably be useful for other Linux distributions besides ArchLinux.

I don't mind lower casing the name, but the repository is SIlkJS and git clone will (by default) create the directory not lower case the name. Otherwise, changing the name would require fixing up just a few files in the repository, particularly those with #!/usr/local/bin/SilkJS, and maybe the Install.js script.

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Mark Constable < reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

Would it be possible to officially rename the SilkJS binary to silkjs (or even just silk)?

Debian/Ubuntu and Archlinux will probably do this anyway and the binary installation packages will be all lowercase as well.

Related is an install target in the Makefile so make INSTALL_ROOT= or DESTDIR= will place the executable and examples some where they can be packaged.

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[mschwartz]

I renamed the binary to silkjs (lower case) in the Makefiles, Install.js, etc.

I think I caught all the places the SilkJS string was used.

Note: I did not change the name of SilkJS.h, or the name of this repository.