D Shared Software System name change vote
Chris Nicholson-Sauls
ibisbasenji at gmail.com
Fri Nov 17 00:31:10 PST 2006
John Reimer wrote:
>
>> Since this is supposed to be suggestions, how about:
>>
>> dmand -- as in the 'ondmand' suggestion already made, but a bit shorter
>> dmerge -- as in 'emerge' on Gentoo... ;) Probably /too/ similar for
>> safety, though
>> dport -- as in 'portage' ... but that's not exactly right
>> desire -- *shrug*
>> dsc -- D.S.SS C.lient? (Reminds me of a time when 'Mango' was 'D
>> Server Classes'.)
>> dvn -- as in D-VersioN, parody of SubVersioN
>> dsoft -- *shrug*
>>
>> And finally.........
>>
>> dsource -- like the web site ;)
>>
>> I guess my "top three" would be 'dsss' as it stands, 'dmand' and
>> 'desire'.
>>
>> -- Chris Nicholson-Sauls
>
>
>
> dsource is quite the idea. It actually fits. :)
>
> But I'm not sure if it's a safe bet.
>
> -JJR
I'm just afraid it might lead to confusion. And/or to the impression that the site staff
(Hi Brad) and the DSSS developer are the same... Maybe one day it might happen, never
know; but don't want to imply what isn't there.
I do suppose it'd be my "number four" choice though. ;)
-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls
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