release scope names (was "Kernel/Coder/Carnival")

Raymond Asselin raymondasselin at sympatico.ca
Mon Mar 17 00:22:07 UTC 2003


Le Dimanche, 16 mars 2003, à 18:51 America/Montreal, Richard A. O'Keefe 
a écrit :

> I've tried to stay out, but what the heck.
>
> core/coder/carnival don't really help; the assonance is no more than
> 'cuteness'.  Let's go for helpfulness.
>
> mechanic/writer/audience are even worse.  Amongst other things, if you
> are writing for an audience, don't you need the stuff your audience 
> will
> have so that you know what they'll see?  So shouldn't the "writer"
> version have MORE than the "audience" version?  And when I hear 
> "mechanic"
> I think of car mechanics, of Tik-Tok, and of Shakespeare's "rude 
> mechanicals".
>
> Why the heck don't we just call them the "Small", "Medium", and "Large"
> versions?  Small/Medium/Large at least say plainly _something_ salient
> about the versions.  Or "Minimal", "Reduced", and "Normal" suggesting
> (correctly) that you probably want to go for the "Normal" release 
> unless
> you have some special reason for wanting a smaller one.
>
> Please, let's go for simple common words that will be hard to 
> misundertand.
>
>
I agree with Richard



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