Prototype buildsystem "Drake"

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message 
news:ivnfk8$2v3p$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 2011-07-13 23:03, jdrewsen wrote:
>>
>> A good start I think. The first thing that I think should be fixed is
>> the naming.
>>
>> Drake should be called dbuild
>> Orb should be called dpack
>>
>> You read the name and you have an idea of what it does - nothing fancy.
>
> "Drake" was probably chosen because it's basically "rake for D" and 
> possibly because "dake" was already taken. "rake" was most likely chosen 
> because it's "make" but the makefiles are written in Ruby instead.
>
> I chose "Orbit" as the name of the package manager and named the tool 
> "Orb". Why? No particular reason, but after that someone mentioned it has 
> the same theme as (Digital)Mars and Phobos.
>

Between "Orb" and "Orange" I was thinking you just liked using names based 
on round things :)