Bikeshedding fun: suggest a name for 64 bit Phobos library

[Simen kjaeraas]

Simen kjaeraas <simen.kjaras at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:55:42 +0200, Stanislav Blinov  
> <stanislav.blinov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> We already have:
>>>      libphobos.a   Phobos 1, 32 bit
>>>     libphobos2.a  Phobos 2, 32 bit
>>>  What should the 64 bit Phobos be named?
>>
>> I'd agree that yet another name is not needed, but just for fun - you  
>> have another moon :) That name would fully reflect feelings of people  
>> facing D anew when they look at things like std.algorithm or std.range  
>> :)
>
> We should have chosen a planet with more moons, to be forward-compatible
> - for what happens when D3 (or 128-bit, to stay more on topic) arrives?
>
> There was a Deimos project for D already, available on
> http://dsource.org/projects/deimos. It is however abandoned, so one could
> conceivably take their name.
>
> Now, the main problem is that we are currently talking only about what
> the 64-bit version of the library should be called, and calling that
> Deimos and the 32-bit Phobos is bound to confuse people.

Oh, and for the actual posed question - I think lib64/libphobos2.a is the
best.

-- 
Simen