Re: [PROPOSAL] New Terminology (was RE: [PROPOSAL] New directorystructure?)

[Christopher Lenz]

Vincent Massol wrote:
[snip]

Hmm, "Front End" is indeed not very clear IMHO, but I'm also having a
hard time thinking of a better term. The only term I can come up with

is

"integration" as a directory name, i.e. integration/ant,
integration/eclipse. But I don't like that very much either.

Yeah, I thought about that one too but I'm not completely happy with it.
It sounds not too bad as a directory name but not very good as a
functional subsystem name. I like "Cactus Runners" (although it comes
from JUnit). They really are integration front ends that act as cactus
enablers/activators/runners/etc.

Okay, I suggested 'integration' only as a directory name. I wouldn't view it as a functional sub-system. Rather, the individual modules are the sub-systems: Cactus/Ant-Integration, Cactus/Eclipse-Integration, Cactus/Maven-Integration etc. etc. "Runners", IMHO, would be a bit misleading, as it implies an actual TestRunner.

Or shall we come up with a nice Cactish name ... :-) humm, let's see ...
What about "Spines". We have the core framework which is the bulk of the
Cactus and then several Spines which grow out of the core to activate
it!

I'm writing this email while flying across the world (London-Mumbai) and
I don't have an internet connection available for look for other cactish
names... That will have to wait but I'm sure we can find some nice
terminology revolving around cactus, if you like the idea of course.

I kinda like Spines though :-)

Spines sounds pretty cool, and non-technical names are always good if you can't agree on a more technical term ;-)

Only two concerns:

- Spines are the things that actual hurt about Cactusses... I'd rather call the TestCases or Redirectors or whatever "spines", but not really the modules that ease the use of Cactus. But I'm not going to insist on this standpoint ;-)

- Such names need a "Why the name?" explanation. The purpose of a Cactus/Ant-Spine isn't as obvious as the purpose of a Cactus/Ant-Integration or Cactus/Ant-Front-End.

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Christopher Lenz
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