[Bro-Dev] bro-pkg -> bropkg

[Michał Purzyński]

Bropkg is easier to type indeed. And then let's change the brocut.

> On 15 Sep 2016, at 13:53, Siwek, Jon <jsiwek at illinois.edu> wrote:
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> Either way seems fine to me also.  Maybe do a strawpoll and go w/ the majority.  Other misc. thoughts:
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> Internally, I already used “bropkg” instead of “bro-pkg” for the name of the Python package/API because Python discourages use of hyphens in module/package names.  But using the Python API isn’t a common use case and figure most devs can handle doing “import bropkg” even though the command-line tool is named “bro-pkg”.
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> I don’t think there’s an argument to change it for the sake of aligning the naming convention with “broctl” because there’s already "bro-cut”.  The hyphenation between those tools is already inconsistent or at least unclear why one deserves hyphenation and the other doesn’t.
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> If easier typing is the rationale, users do already have the option of creating their own shell alias.  
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> Another idea is to keep the command line tool named “bro-pkg”, but also install a symlink to it named “bropkg” for convenience.
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> - Jon
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>> On Sep 15, 2016, at 9:35 AM, Slagell, Adam J <slagell at illinois.edu> wrote:
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>> Someone did come up to me and ask about that during BroCon.
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>> I am indifferent, just please let’s not open up the whole tool name naming conversation. I don’t think I can take that again. :-)
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>>> On Sep 15, 2016, at 9:27 AM, Seth Hall <seth at icir.org> wrote:
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>>> What does everyone think about making a change to rename bro-pkg to bropkg?  I think we're early enough that we could probably get away with it and it fits with more with existing tools like broctl.  I find it difficult to type the hyphen too for some reason.
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>>> Thoughts?
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>>> .Seth
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