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From: Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] python-exec2 C wrapper is looking for a new name!
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 20:33:38
Message-Id: 20160209123238.4e5f177f.dolsen@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] python-exec2 C wrapper is looking for a new name! by Ian Stakenvicius
1 On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 14:53:52 -0500
2 Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 09/02/16 02:51 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > > Hello, everyone.
6 > >
7 > > After all those boring, meaningless and violent mailing list
8 > > threads, here's something nice and simple. I'd like to find a new
9 > > nice name for the C wrapper part of python-exec2, and I would like
10 > > to ask you for ideas.
11 > >
12 > > For some explanation, python-exec2 consists of two wrappers. One of
13 > > them is the 'core' C wrapper that does most of the work. The other
14 > > is a Python script with special shebang that is used to keep
15 > > 'python /usr/bin/foo' working while deferring direct executions to
16 > > the C wrapper.
17 > >
18 > > The Python wrapper is installed as /usr/lib/python-exec/python-exec2
19 > > and this can't change since everything is symlinked to it. The C
20 > > wrapper is named python-exec2-c (which is an ugly name), and since
21 > > it's used only internally, I can safely change its name to
22 > > something nicer.
23 > >
24 > > Any ideas? If possible, I'd like to avoid ambiguity between the two
25 > > wrappers, so the C counterpart would have to be highlighted somehow.
26 > >
27 >
28 > python-exec-cwrapper ?
29 >
30
31 NO, No, you mistyped it...
32
33 python-exec-crapper
34
35 :O
36
37
38 --
39 Brian Dolbec <dolsen>
40
41 P.S. just finning with you :)

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