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Rename light and vis to less generic (and possibly conflicting) names

Open yasinbread opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

Recently I had intentions to package ericw-tools for the openSUSE Linux distribution and it came to my attention that both /usr/bin/vis and /usr/bin/light are already owned by https://github.com/martanne/vis and https://github.com/haikarainen/light respectively. Both of these programs seem to already have official packages on most popular Linux distributions. I understand possible legacy concerns with this, but perhaps light and vis can be renamed to less generic binary names, which wouldn't conflict when installed on a Linux system with the previously mentioned tools already in /usr/bin? Thank you.

yasinbread avatar Oct 18 '22 07:10 yasinbread

I was thinking of potentially adding support for the tool to be used as a mono-tool (similar to q3map2), so you could invoke it like ericwtools -bsp <bsp_options>, ericwtools -vis <vis_options>, etc. This would be one way of solving this that wouldn't require us to change the main three binary tools at all.

Paril avatar Oct 19 '22 19:10 Paril