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|    Granularity of programs (was: Re: Perl q    |
|    14 Jan 26 23:51:17    |
      From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid              On 2026-01-14, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:              > I see that ImageMagick is now moving to prefix all its commands as       > subcommands of a common “magick” command. I guess reducing pollution       > of the global command-name space is, in general, a Good Thing ...              Would make more sense to have a common prefix, given that at least some       of the platforms where it gets installed *are* designed around the       concept of utilities.              Even, conceptually, things like a separate online manual page for each       utility as opposed to having everything in a single page, or having to       split it over several pages that have subnames.              (Didn't ffmpeg's situation regarding the online manual get discussed       here some months ago?)              --       Nuno Silva              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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