D Shared Software System name change vote

Alexander Panek a.panek at brainsware.org
Fri Nov 17 11:02:38 PST 2006


'dsource' or 'dsrc' has my vote for sure!

Apart from potential confusion with Brad (dsource.org), it fits really good.

Alex

John Reimer wrote:
> 
>> Since this is supposed to be suggestions, how about:
>>
>> dmand -- as in the 'ondmand' suggestion already made, but a bit shorter
>> dmerge -- as in 'emerge' on Gentoo... ;)  Probably /too/ similar for 
>> safety, though
>> dport -- as in 'portage' ... but that's not exactly right
>> desire -- *shrug*
>> dsc -- D.S.SS C.lient?  (Reminds me of a time when 'Mango' was 'D 
>> Server Classes'.)
>> dvn -- as in D-VersioN, parody of SubVersioN
>> dsoft -- *shrug*
>>
>> And finally.........
>>
>> dsource -- like the web site ;)
>>
>> I guess my "top three" would be 'dsss' as it stands, 'dmand' and 
>> 'desire'.
>>
>> -- Chris Nicholson-Sauls
> 
> 
> dsource is quite the idea.  It actually fits. :)
> 
> But I'm not sure if it's a safe bet.
> 
> -JJR



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