[ZODB-Dev] proposal for util renaming

[John Belmonte]

I'd like to propose a renaming of the utilities currently placed in 
/usr/bin.  Rationale:

     * some items are generically named, such as "fstest".  A packager 
may be forced to rename these, or put them in a /usr/bin/zope 
subdirectory, either of which would break compatibility with other 
distributions.  This is the namespace pollution issue again.

     * for some items, such as "repozo", the relevant component cannot 
be discerned from the name.  This isn't the case for most items, but 
even then the naming is ad hoc.

     * the .py extension is an implementation detail and shouldn't be 
exposed.  The zconfig tool follows this already.

     * the proposed names allow discovery through shell command 
completion (for example, "zeo-<tab><tab>")

fsdump.py       zodb-fsdump
fsrefs.py       zodb-fsrefs
fstail.py       zodb-fstail
fstest.py       zodb-fstest
repozo.py       zodb-fsbackup
zconfig         zconfig-check
zeopack.py      zeo-pack
runzeo.py       zeo-run
zeopasswd.py    zeo-passwd
mkzeoinst.py    zeo-mkinst
zeoctl.py       zeo-ctl
zdrun.py        zdaemon-run
zdctl.py        zdaemon-ctl


-John


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