/usr/bin/ng conflicts with another "ng"

[AkihiroSuda]

There is another /usr/bin/ng ( https://packages.debian.org/en/sid/ng-common ).

Although the other "ng" is no longer under active development, any chance to reconsider the executable name?

[crawshaw]

Oh that is unfortunate. :-( I did look on my various unix machines here for ng binaries before naming it, I guess this old package isn't in Ubuntu or the BSD I had installed.

How does Debian handle naming conflicts? Is it possible? Or is there a global name registry and its first-come-first-serve?

[mvdan]

You could also go with ngr.

[crawshaw]

Besides being an unusual contraction, ngr has potential pronunciation problems.

The only other names I'm considering right now are neu and neugram. The latter is a little long but there's no confusion there. neu is a bit tricky. I like it, but it's easy to type new by mistake.

When I did so on an ubuntu machine, I discovered that command line name conflicts are common:

$ new
The program 'new' can be found in the following packages:
 * mmh
 * nmh
Try: sudo apt install <selected package>

$ nes
The program 'nes' can be found in the following packages:
 * fceux
 * mednafen
 * nestopia

Given that Nihongo Mg MicroGnuEmacs appears to be long-defunct, I am inclined to live with the name conflict.

[sevein]

For the record there is another project called Nailgun which comes with a client called ng.

I like neugram and I think neug could also work :)

[cznic]

Neugram is a scripting language and shell.

slash

[crawshaw]

I'm curious if a github issue can be used as a poll.

If you have an opinion, please thumbs up one of the two following options, neugram or ng. I'm tempted to leave things as they are, but there are good arguments for naming the binary neugram.

[crawshaw]

neugram

[crawshaw]

ng

[adelowo]

Hi @crawshaw , seems you need this https://github.com/apex/gh-polls

[tbodt]

Debian has a package called ninja and another package called ninja-build, which both provide a binary called ninja.

[sabhiram]

@adelowo - I actually think the poll done using the thumbs up + two comments is far more elegant and less disruptive from an interaction standpoint. Regardless, gh-polls looks interesting :)

[AkihiroSuda]

I'm ok to close this issue now

[ksshannon]

A potentially more problematic name clash is with the Angular CLI:

https://github.com/angular/angular-cli

It also goes by ng. I personally don't have an issue, but it's a little more high profile.