[Swift-devel] Rename versions of Globus commands in swift/bin?

[Ian Foster]

Mike:

This begs the question for me as to why they are different. Are Swift  
proxies different from Globus proxies, for example? And if so, why?

Ian.


On Feb 11, 2009, at 10:29 PM, Michael Wilde wrote:

> Matt raises a good point below. Can we rename globus-url-copy, grid- 
> proxy-init, and other commands that have the same name as Globus  
> commands, to swift-url-copy, swift-proxy-init, etc?
>
> Especially for those that are not identical enough to the Globus  
> versions (where that is tbd).
>
> Its extremely handy to have these commands there, but perhaps  
> confusing for some users that get these in their paths ahead of the  
> Globus versions. I realize calling them swift-* causes its own kind  
> of confusion, but I'm excited that folks like Mats are installing  
> Swift for users, and I'd like to remove any barriers, even the small  
> ones.
>
> This is likely to be a bigger issue for users with the OSG client  
> stack installed.
>
> On 2/11/09 10:18 PM, Michael Wilde wrote:
>> On 2/11/09 9:28 PM, Mats Rynge wrote:
>
> ...
>>>
>>> Regarding bin/, it is pretty evil to have a globus-url-copy under  
>>> the
>>> swift bin/ which has a different set of command line options as the
>>> Globus one. I had a plan on adding swift to the default path on our
>>> submit node so all our users could use swift without doing anything
>>> special. But having a different globus-url-copy means it would break
>>> things for other users.
>> I know what you mean. I actually got bit the other day by our copy  
>> of grid-proxy-init - I was seeing the globus one, and one of my  
>> users was seeing the swift one, with a slightly different output  
>> that broke a script.
>> So I agree - if the swift version is not pretty near identical, its  
>> better to give it another name. I'll past your comment to the devel  
>> list with a suggestion that we rename it. Perhaps swift-proxy-init,  
>> swift-url-copy? (not sure how that will go over... ;)
>> - Mike
>
> Mats, I would just go ahead and remove or rename those, in the  
> meantime.
>
> I dont think anything points to them.
>
> - Mike
>
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