[avahi] avahi-resolve-host-name.c

[Sebastien Estienne]

2005/11/7, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.de>:
> On Mon, 07.11.05 01:10, Sebastien Estienne (sebastien.estienne at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > hello,
> >
> > A post to keep the mailing list alive, as most discussion occured on
> > irc these days  :)
> >
> > why not renaming avahi-resolve-host-name.c in avahi-resolve.c
> > 1) it does resolve both host-name and addresses
> > 2) it's more coherent with avahi-browse.c
> > 3) it's shorter to type when you don't completion ;)
>
> avahi-resolve-host-name.c builds actually two programs: a-r-host-name
> and a-r-address. Depending on the value of argv[0] you get either one
> or the other.
>
> When I implemented that i tried to replace in C what Avahi 0.5 already
> provided in Python. For better compatibility with 0.5 the tools have
> the same names and accept exactly the same command line arguments as
> the old versions. I think that "compatibility" is a good reason to
> leave the stuff as it is now. Don't you think?

I see the point, but why not renaming the source file avahi-resolve.c and build
avahi-resolve, then symlinks it to a-r-address and a-r-host-name, so
the argv[0] tricks would still work, and no duplicate binary, and you
still have "compatibility".
(btw the symlink is what bash does for bin/sh)
Don't you think?

>
> Lennart
>
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