serious name collision with Scala fsc

[Kevin Cantu]

So I've now noticed that there can be a serious a name collision
between the F# compiler runscript installed by the fsharp build
scripts (from https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp) and one of the Scala
compilers, fsc (http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/tools/fsc.html).

Since 'fsc' is installed by Ubuntu's 'scala' package, for example,
what would you rename the run scripts to in order to avoid the
collision?

I made myself a quick hack renaming both 'fsc' and 'fsi' to 'runfsc'
and 'runfsi', but I'm not attached to the names: https://github.com/killerswan/fsharp
...


Cheers,
Kevin

[Tomas Petricek]

Hi,
Yes, this is a very unfortunate collision. The earlier verison of F#
packages (see [1]) used "fsharpc" and "fsharpi" to avoid it, so maybe that
may a reasonable alternative naming. On the other hand, I do not see how
"fsc" can be a shortcut associated with the Scala compiler? Where does the
"f" come from?

Tomas

[1] http://fsxplat.codeplex.com/

Cheers,
Kevin

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[Mehdi]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Tomas Petricek <to...@tomasp.net> wrote:

Hi,
Yes, this is a very unfortunate collision. The earlier verison of F#
packages (see [1]) used "fsharpc" and "fsharpi" to avoid it, so maybe that
may a reasonable alternative naming. On the other hand, I do not see how
"fsc" can be a shortcut associated with the Scala compiler? Where does the
"f" come from?

"f" as "fast"... nothing really specific to Scala, I agee.

Regards,

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[Kevin Cantu]

I have now put in a pull request for a version with 'fsharpc' and
'fsharpi', here: https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp/pull/10

[Tomas Petricek]

Hi Kevin,
Thanks very much for the update! The changes look good to me and I think
that switching to "fsharpc" and "fsharpi" is probably a good thing to do.
I'll let someone from Mono decide & merge the changes, because they are the
main owners of the repo.

Thanks!
T.

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[Andreia Gaita]

Hi everyone,

Sorry for the delay, I've been away and it's been a busy time for Mono folks. The change has been merged with fsharp master, thanks!

andreia gaita
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