appmake renamed

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derekfountain
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appmake renamed

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I've just picked up 2.1 and I notice appmake has been renamed to z88dk-appmake. It broke my build.

Did I miss an announcement on this? Were any other tools renamed?
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dom
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Re: appmake renamed

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To avoid clashes with other packages, many years ago an option was added to prefix the internal tools with "z88dk-".

As part of the snap work and containerising things more, that was formalised so that all internal tools were always created with the z88dk-. Thinking about what people were doing the following tools were only available without the prefix:

- zcc
- sccz80
- zsdcc

The following tool was made available with and without:

- z80asm

I thought a fair bit about making appmake be invokable either way, but opted against it in the end because I felt it unlikely that it would be invoked as a tool outside of z88dk. I got it wrong. Sorry.
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Re: appmake renamed

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No problem at all. A tweak to my makefile fixed it.

I posted because I thought it was worth noting in a searchable forum that the command line interface has changed.
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