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| Jun 21, 2016 at 3:21 | comment | added | Braiam | @Haspemulator because, "tags should make sense as the only tag on the question". Is a question about bash on windows only a bash question, I would say that yes. Is a windows question... meh, windows has more moving parts that bash do (is an OS!) so using bash should be enough for most cases. Only stuff unique to the wsl environment use the other tag. | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 13:59 | vote | accept | Benjamin W. | ||
| Jun 20, 2016 at 11:31 | comment | added | Haspemulator |
If the question is about bash on windows, why won't tag with with 2 tags: bash and windows? wsl tag should be attached to the questions about the platform itself, not to the applications it's running.
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| Jun 20, 2016 at 6:17 | comment | added | Rid Iculous | IMHO "win-subsystem-for-linux" makes much more sense than any short TLA. The 25 char tag limit is in place to keep tags short. No need to go beyond that. Sacrificing intelligibility in favor of lazy typing seems a bad idea. | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 23:02 | comment | added | Benjamin W. | That makes perfectly sense, so the desired final state of things would be wsl as the "master tag", and ubuntu-on-windows and windows-bash as synonyms of it. (Maybe also a wordier version, such as win-subsystem-for-linux?) | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 15:11 | comment | added | Spc_555 | @AndrasDeak true, but if we add the other two tags as synonyms it should solve this problem | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 14:58 | comment | added | Andras Deak -- Слава Україні |
VasilyAlexeev I think @CodyGray's point is that people who want to add this tag, (such as OP) will not find it if it's called wsl (such as OP). At least those users who attempt to tag properly should be able to easily do so.
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| Jun 19, 2016 at 11:44 | comment | added | Spc_555 | @CodyGray I had the exactly same consideration, but the full name is so long it really doesn't make sense as a tag. And it looks like (somewhat surprisingly) "WSL" acronym doesn't have any other popular meaning which could be on-topic for SO. | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 11:39 | comment | added | Cody Gray Mod |
I completely agree with this answer, the only thing I'm a little iffy about is another TLA (three-letter acronym). The TWEs (tag wiki excerpts) certainly help to explain WTF WSL is, so I guess that's okay. But I wonder if the "master" tag (to which all others are synonymized) ought not be something more explicit, like [win-subsystem-for-linux]. (The max tag length is 25 chars, so this fits, and with auto-completion, no one will actually have to type it each time.)
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| Jun 19, 2016 at 11:36 | history | answered | Spc_555 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |