On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:01:21AM +0100, Matt Goodall wrote:
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 06:19, David Reid wrote:
These are some of the names that were thrown around the other day during a discussion #twisted.web about naming the split. Some are dependent on it being installed under the twisted namespace... since radix has said that is a no go, I'm going to omit the "twisted." and see how they stand on their own.
unwound stem qem newvo labryinth charlotte weevil ferret eighty spider lattice matrix trellis kudzu arachnid assassin wev weever vewon world waffle
From the above I like:
unwound charlotte (but probably a bit whimisical to many people)
Some other ideas:
firestarter (obligatory music reference) silk sticky tangled warp widow (perhaps a little negative ;-))
I think something short and snappy is best. Try typing the package name a few times to test. I find 'unwound' easy to type but I'm not so sure about 'charlotte'.
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If you used dvorak, all of those would be easy to type :-) I think any name chosen should not be common word, because it makes finding information on that thing very hard. For example, compare google searches for "nevow" and "woven". That said, here are three methods for making such names: - acronyms. BORING! - concatenating two words. works, but must be creative, so don't look at me :) - making your own words. Pretty hard to do, so I wrote a small program to make some ideas. Let's see if anyone can figure out how I did it: liaweb deliaweb gniliaweb sliaweb eraweb deraweb seraweb gniraweb redliweb deredliweb gniredliweb tnemredliweb s'tnemredliweb sredliweb hctiweb dehctiweb sehctiweb gnihctiweb Of course, some of these could be tweaked to be more pronouncable. I like "eraweb" or "seraweb" personally. I'm kinda bummed that they all end in "web" though - perhaps someone can devise a better procedure for generating ideas. Another idea, why not put all these ideas on a webpage, and allow people to mark and submit suggestions. I'm sure it will lead to no consensus, but it should at least narrow the possibilities. I'm willing to write it, if it's a worthwhile idea.