[tor-talk] torsocks, usewithtor, torify questions - end the confusion!

[adrelanos]

Maxim Kammerer:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:58 AM, adrelanos <adrelanos at riseup.net>
> wrote:
>> I read somewhere in latest torify source that it's only held for 
>> compatibility reasons.
> 
> Seems so: 
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob/HEAD:/contrib/torify.in 
> “Now, it's just a backwards compatible shim around torsocks with 
> reasonable behavior if -v/--verbose or -h/--help arguments are 
> passed.”
> 
> I think it should stay, since there are probably quite a few
> scripts relying on "torify". "usewithtor" still comes out as rather
> useless, though.
> 

Well, this is a good task for the community. There are three shell
scripts.
- torify
- usewithtor
- torsocks

Here is the plan:
- torify points to torsocks
- usewithtor features get moved to torsocks
- usewithtor points to torsocks

Only simple shell scripts... Anyone up for it?