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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/01/2012 02:11 PM, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 01:06:10 -0400
> Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> I don't disagree with you. At the same time, I think Brian has a good
>> point when he compares having two versions of SQLAlchemy installed on a
>> system: it just doesn't make much sense.
> 
> But having glance(1) and super-duper-incompatible-glance-ng(1) installed
> together makes a lot of sense. Count systems in the field that have both
> ifconfig and ip installed. Millions and millions of them. Brian's analogy
> with SQUalchemy is pretty amusing but fails to hide the fact that the
> new binary is incompatible.

As mentioned in a previous post, you could always just alias glance to
whichever absolute path to the specific glance CLI tool you use in your
shell script.

Would it be better if we named the CLI tools "glance2" or something like
that?

Best,
-jay