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

[Mihael Hategan]

On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 22:29 -0600, 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?

I think the less confusing and accurate names would be cog-*.

> 
> 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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