Descent 0.2 released

Ary Manzana ary at esperanto.org.ar
Tue Mar 6 17:42:31 PST 2007


Brad Anderson escribió:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> Mark Wrenn wrote:
>>> Ary Manzana wrote:
>>>> One more thing: I'm thinking of renaming the project to Déjàvu (it
>>>> has the letter D, it has "jav" on it, and it reminds you of some
>>>> other plugin...). What do you think?
>>>
>>> Frank Benoit's Tioport project has a library called dejavu.
>> Ooh, that's a good one.  Wait a minute -- haven't I seen this code
>> before?  :-)  Using "dejavu" for a java to D conversion tool definitely
>> trumps any other usage I can think of, except for perhaps a D to java
>> conversion tool... or a D tool specifically for viewing Java code.  But
>> neither of those is likely to happen.  :-)
>>
>> Maybe you can think of a good name with vaguely astronomical
>> connotations, since we have Digital Mars on the one hand and Eclipse on
>> the other.
>>
>> Some random words that may spark an idea:
>>   radioactive
>>   radial
>>   red shift
>>   asteroid
>>   meteoroid
>>
>> Or how about "Pathfinder"?  Named after the successful Martian rover
>> mission.  It has a 'd', it's positive, it has a Mars/astronomy
>> connections, and it's roughly descriptive of what the software actually
>> does (help you find your way through piles of code).
>>
>> Or forget all that and just call it "9D9".  Because it sounds like some
>> kind of cool bounty hunter robot.
>>
>> Radial/radio are not bad either -- "Rad" tool for "D".
>>
>> --bb
> 
> Descent is perfect.
> 
> BA
> 
> P.S.  I'm the one who would have to change the project name in all the
> different places on the server ;)

All these replies make me like even more the name Descent (especially 
Brad's answer). I won't change it. Thank you. :-P



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