Prototype buildsystem "Drake"

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday 14 July 2011 15:18:46 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "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 :)

That and names starting with "Or".

- Jonathan M Davis