Descent 0.2 released

Brad Anderson brad at dsource.org
Tue Mar 6 17:22:23 PST 2007


Bill Baxter wrote:
> Mark Wrenn wrote:
>> Ary Manzana wrote:
>>> One more thing: I'm thinking of renaming the project to Déjàvu (it
>>> has the letter D, it has "jav" on it, and it reminds you of some
>>> other plugin...). What do you think?
>>
>>
>> Frank Benoit's Tioport project has a library called dejavu.
> 
> Ooh, that's a good one.  Wait a minute -- haven't I seen this code
> before?  :-)  Using "dejavu" for a java to D conversion tool definitely
> trumps any other usage I can think of, except for perhaps a D to java
> conversion tool... or a D tool specifically for viewing Java code.  But
> neither of those is likely to happen.  :-)
> 
> Maybe you can think of a good name with vaguely astronomical
> connotations, since we have Digital Mars on the one hand and Eclipse on
> the other.
> 
> Some random words that may spark an idea:
>   radioactive
>   radial
>   red shift
>   asteroid
>   meteoroid
> 
> Or how about "Pathfinder"?  Named after the successful Martian rover
> mission.  It has a 'd', it's positive, it has a Mars/astronomy
> connections, and it's roughly descriptive of what the software actually
> does (help you find your way through piles of code).
> 
> Or forget all that and just call it "9D9".  Because it sounds like some
> kind of cool bounty hunter robot.
> 
> Radial/radio are not bad either -- "Rad" tool for "D".
> 
> --bb

Descent is perfect.

BA

P.S.  I'm the one who would have to change the project name in all the
different places on the server ;)



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