Prototype buildsystem "Drake"

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-07-14 21:18, 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 :)

Hehe. I actually started using names of fruits for my projects (I have 
an unreleased library named "lime"), don't really know why I chose Orbit.

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/Jacob Carlborg