Prototype buildsystem "Drake"

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message 
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> 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.
>

Fan of the Mango project? ;)