[GH-ISSUE #2356] Please release this tool with a less generic name #1086

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opened 2026-03-01 21:48:47 +03:00 by kerem · 1 comment

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Originally created by @ericpromislow on GitHub (Jun 7, 2024).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/2356

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act version 0.2.62

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I'm stuck with a machine without sudo access and had to look up how to run act with a non-standard docker socket and finally found it but it took longer than it should have. I wonder why this very useful tool was released under such a generic undescriptive name.

Originally created by @ericpromislow on GitHub (Jun 7, 2024). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/2356 ### Act version act version 0.2.62 ### Feature description I'm stuck with a machine without sudo access and had to look up how to run `act` with a non-standard docker socket and finally found it but it took longer than it should have. I wonder why this very useful tool was released under such a generic undescriptive name.

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@ChristopherHX commented on GitHub (Sep 26, 2024):

This is actually true, terms nektos, nektos act and act cli are working much better an list this repo as 1. entry.

I'm working on another tool for a very similar usecase, but a fundermentally different approuch. That name is long enough to be found in search engines except the dotnet tool name that is just like act a failure for search engines.

However given act's popularity and I'm not an owner a rename is a chaos.

@ChristopherHX commented on GitHub (Sep 26, 2024): This is actually true, terms `nektos`, `nektos act` and `act cli` are working much better an list this repo as 1. entry. I'm working on another tool for a very similar usecase, but a fundermentally different approuch. That name is long enough to be found in search engines except the dotnet tool name that is just like act a failure for search engines. However given act's popularity and I'm not an owner a rename is a chaos.

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[PR #1086] [MERGED] deps: remove shlex #1767

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