[paho-dev] Paho command line utilities

[Ian Craggs <icraggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello committers,

I noticed the other day that Al has stdinpub and stdoutsub for his Go 
client.  This is what I called the command line utilities for the C 
client a long time ago, and I think that a rename is in order.

Mosquitto has mosquitto_pub and mosquitto_sub, so I thought we should 
have paho_pub and paho_sub.  But we have a number of language 
implementations, and sometimes different APIs within the same 
language.   To avoid name clashes when more than one client library is 
installed, I propose that we have a convention where each client library 
calls its command line utilities:

paho_<lang>_sub

and

paho_<lang>_pub

where <lang> is really the tag of your choice.   It's a bit unwieldy but 
I'm not sure if there's a better way - let me know if you have an 
alternative suggestion.  Whether you have command line utilities is of 
course optional, I find command line utilities invaluable for testing.

So for the C client, we would have

paho_c_sub, paho_c_pub

This will be complicated by MQTT-SN too, but I'm sure we can work 
something out.

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Ian Craggs
icraggs@xxxxxxxxxx                 IBM United Kingdom
Paho Project Lead; Committer on Mosquitto