Brig wrote:I just don't see why x2 should bloat up to incorporate it.
It shouldn't, of course. Nikos is choosing this topic to parade not because it needs doing, but rather because it can be treated as (essentially) a stand-alone aspect, insulated from the real code, which he's reluctant to touch.
It's also a really easy source of public "busy-work" development because it will take years before any such facility can be as trustedly mature as the extant lot of dedicated lads who've already been fire-tested - and all the while he can (every few months) conveniently wheel-out blog posts about how "surprisingly" complex the simple-seeming world of renaming really is, and how much "effort" goes into making sure it's
robust enough for our peace of mind (consistent keywords are all the rage).
It's funny how there's a persistent list of
real things/requests that need doing (going back years), yet somehow this fluff gets put at the top - coincidence? I think not.
Nikos himself wrote:as I see it the mass renaming bit can get so complex that it deserves a stand alone application, and there are tons of them already
Imagine that. "Deserves", yet. My cynicism is only outweighed by the "road-to-Damascus" change-of tone the Horse's mouth itself doth protest - and lord knows it takes
a lot to outweigh
my cynicism on even the most innocent of subjects... especially where horses are concerned.
However, to amuse the "topically" minded: Desired features? None. As
Brig said, Renamer (above) is all you need.
And for the un-topically minded: No nikos, I will never be a salesman

- my core integrity against embellishing superficiality will
never get the better of me, no matter how desperate a place this delusional world may become. One of the benefits and luxuries of not having little mouths to feed, I should think - or, at least, that's how the philosophy is best sold to the sell-outs who mistake fluffy embellishment for core-functionality.
