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How one developer just broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript

Richard Lloyd

Name clashes aren't uncommon - I have one

I got name-clashed by MySQL (and now MariaDB too) no less - they include a binary called "replace" (despite almost all their binaries having a "mysql" prefix), which was first shipped years after the "replace" utility I wrote was released. A polite request from me asking them to rename it to "mysqlreplace" was ignored, which is annoying because MySQL's replace command is not good to say the least...

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