I would like a default alias for sam-cli to be sam.
The name “SAM” refers to the “Serverless Application Model” which is a means of expressing an application in code. It is just a model and some conventions.
The SAM CLI is a command line tool that help users to create and deploy applications using SAM.
The binary for the SAM CLI is called sam (because it’s shorter and easier than typing sam-cli).
The command line tool is always referred to in documentation as “the SAM CLI” so I would argue that the snap name ought to be sam-cli to keep that distinction between the model and the tool. However, users expect to install the SAM CLI and find a binary called sam.
I’m happy to be schooled in The Ways of Snap on this but the long and short of it is that I suspect users will search for “sam cli” or “sam-cli” and expect to find a package named that - that’s the name of its package in other package managers.
Given there seems to be no name collision I can find for sam - I’d say you’re good to have that alias. I don’t think it largely matters which snap name you go for. sam-cli makes sense if that’s the known internal name. There’s certainly a lot of *-cli snaps in the store. (I can’t do a snap find -cli interestingly, so had to bodge it a bit)…
$ snap find "cli" | grep "\-cli "
radiomanager-cli 1.0.101 cas-pluxbox - Bash RadioManager client
aws-cli 1.16.129 aws* classic Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services
yandex-weather-cli 1.13 msoap - Yandex weather cli
true-cli 0.11.0 marlinc - True CLI client
verum-cli 2.1.0 scratso - The official Verum CLI interface app.
rigado-cli 1.0+20190308-bc89831 cprov - Rigado CLI
gif-for-cli 1.1+git kz6fittycent - GIF's in the terminal
tarefa42-cli 0.0.1 gocarlos - simple todo app within the cli
testflinger-cli 0.1 pwlars - testflinger-cli
linode-cli v2.1.4 felicianotech - linode-cli allows you to manage your Linode account from your terminal.
openstack-cli 3.11.0 joeborg - OpenStack Command-line Client
bosh-cli v5.4.0 nullboxorg - BOSH CLI
andy-py-cli 0.1 andybulka - Simple python CLI test app
azure-cli 2.0.25 azpycli* - Microsoft Azure CLI
gif-cli 0.0.3 twom - CLI tool to search for gifs
bbk-cli 1.1.0 bredbandskollen - A tool for bandwidth measurement
telegram-cli 1.4.5 marius-quabeck - Command-line interface for Telegram. Uses the readline interface.
refstack-cli 0.1+git jdh - RefStack provides tools for the interoperability testing of OpenStack clouds
uappexplorer-cli 1.0.0 bhdouglass - Browse uApp Explorer right for the command line!
snom-cli 1.0 gizmo693 - Remotely control your SNOM phone
dev-time-cli 1.9 daniellivingston - Gets the local time of users in GitHub.
sqlmap-cli 1.3 shaner - Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool
hranoprovod-cli 0+git.5dc5d91 aquilax - Life metrics plaintext tracker
So +1 from me to having a sam alias in the sam-cli snap.
As per a separate discussion both on here and GitHub, I need to change the same of the package to aws-sam-cli - terrible timing as I’ve only just had a chance to get back here to update you and you’ve just made the alias for me - sorry!
