Plans for Bazaar

[Emanuel Angelo]

2017-05-26 22:23 GMT+01:00 Will Parsons <wbp at nodomain.invalid>:

> Aaron Bentley wrote:
> >
> > On 2017-05-26 08:20 AM, Brendan Simon (eTRIX) wrote:
> >> On 26/5/17 10:00 pm, bazaar-request at lists.canonical.com wrote:
> >> I know it's just a name, but I can't say that Breezy really rocks.=20
> >> Having said that I can't think of anything better.  BNG (Bazaar next
> >> gen) is easier to type :)  BaNG perhaps?  Just throwing it out there.
>
> "BNG" definitely (see below).
>
> > Fun fact: the current Bazaar is already "Next Generation".  The original
> > Bazaar was a "Friendly fork" of Gnu Arch, now called "Baz".
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Bazaar#History
> >
> > Since the current Bazaar was originally called Bazaar-NG, calling
> > something else "Next Gen" could cause confusion.
>
> Will it?  Regardless of whether "next generation" is appropriate, having
> "bng" as a command is *far* easier to type than many other alternatives.
> Back when I was experimenting with what were at the time the leading modern
> source control systems, viz. bazaar(-ng), mercurial, and git, one *clear*
> advantage that Mercurial had over the others was how easy it was to type
> "hg"
> ("git" was easy, too), but "bzr" was just so difficult to type!  "BNG" with
> the letters centrally placed and close to each other, is much better than
> anything with a Z.  (And, yes, this is a serious comment.)
>

I completely agree, "bng" is far easier to type and it does make a
difference, although in practice I tend to use an "alias b=bzr" on my
system. Still, there is another practical and immediate issue, which is the
fact that "bzr" and "brz" are virtually indistinguishable when eyes scan
the screen.


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> Will
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