[Nexus-developers] Nxtranslate in 3.0?

[Akeroyd, FA (Freddie)]

I guess NXtoNX4 should then logically become nx2nx4; however I think
this name is confusing. Given the code similarity of NXtoNX4 and NXtoNX5
I propose instead an "nxconvert" with command line options --xml, --hdf4

and --hdf5

Freddie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Maliszewskyj [mailto:nickm at nist.gov]
> Sent: 08 June 2005 22:18
> To: Peterson, Peter F.
> Cc: Akeroyd, FA (Freddie); nexus-developers at anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [Nexus-developers] Nxtranslate in 3.0?
> 
> Amen to that. Camel case has a place within code so you can read it
> and in Winblows names, because you won't be actually typing them
> anyway, but for the command line we should be a little kinder to our
> friends who actually use their keyboards.
> 
> To promote intelligibility we can even morph "NXtoDTD" into "nx2dtd".
> 
> Nick
> 
> Peterson, Peter F. wrote:
> 
> >I'm in favor of all lowercase names for executables. Guess that I've
> >been "unixed".
> >
> >P^2
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: nexus-developers-bounces at anl.gov
> >[mailto:nexus-developers-bounces at anl.gov] On Behalf Of Akeroyd, FA
> >(Freddie)
> >Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 8:28 AM
> >To: nexus-developers at anl.gov
> >Subject: RE: [Nexus-developers] Nxtranslate in 3.0?
> >
> >What about NXdir too? Also we need to clarify case in the naming of
> >executables: "NXbrowse/NXtoDTD/NXtranslate" v
> >"nxbrowse/nxtodtd/nxtranslate" - the former look nicer but the latter
> >are easier to type.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Freddie
> >
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: nexus-developers-bounces at anl.gov [mailto:nexus-developers-
> >>bounces at anl.gov] On Behalf Of Nick Maliszewskyj
> >>Sent: 07 June 2005 21:55
> >>To: Peterson, Peter F.
> >>Cc: nexus-developers at anl.gov
> >>Subject: Re: [Nexus-developers] Nxtranslate in 3.0?
> >>
> >>OK. Let's make it official. NXtranslate will move from contrib to
> >>application for the 3.0 release.
> >>
> >>Nick
> >>
> >>Peterson, Peter F. wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I was curious what the official stance was on moving NXtranslate
from
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
> >
> >>>"contrib/application" to "application". Is it going to happen for
the
> >>>
> >>>
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> >
> >>>3.0 release of the API?
> >>>
> >>>P^2
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