Does anyone oppose the proposal?
How can we determine consensus?
Is there any voting process?
Is there any developer who is more versed than me with C than me who
can write this patch?
On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 2:52 PM Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Re: Fred .Flintstone 2019-04-10 <CAJgfmqVQWFM7F-JogWEo6MWGA8Oa8BtB4dYAo=y7X5q=SBd35A@mail.gmail.com>
> > It seems we do have a clear path forward on how to accomplish this and
> > implement this change.
> >
> > 1. Rename executables to carry the pg_ prefix.
> > 2. Create symlinks from the old names to the new names.
> > 3. Modify the executables to read argv[0] and print a warning if the
> > executable is called from the old name (symlink).
> >
> > This seems technically feasible and easy.
> >
> > How can we proceed?
>
> You can send a patch.
>
> But I don't think there has been a "clear" agreement that this is a
> good idea.
>
> Christoph