On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 4:04 AM, <g...@crawl.develz.org> wrote: > Rename megabats to bats. > > This doesn't bring the 'giant' back, so the original purpose of renaming > them is > not defeated. > > The rationale is that most people don't care about the name, but the few > who do > are in some way dissatisfied with it. So this just polishes the bats a > bit. > Bats remain mega in two vaults (megacathedral and goddamned_bats), in > hopes to > make everybody happy.
I do care quite a bit about this name, and I am in no way dissatisfied with it. I put a considerable amount of effort into defending my original decision to both members of the development team and members of the community. I had assumed that, based on the fact that I had neither received negative feedback nor seen any conversation particularly about the change recently, that it had been accepted and that most people were happy with it. However, I don't want to derail a perfectly good change with something relatively unrelated: asides all of that, I think the rationale for the change is a good one, I'm probably just more surprised than anything. I am myself guilty of making sudden changes without consultation, and have no doubt surprised or even offended some people, so it would be wrong of me to point fingers. On the subject of bats, though: if we're going to have a separate megabat monster (whether vault-defined or source-defined), I think it would be quite good if this one was more powerful than general bats. Perhaps I just want megabats to be megaspecial? ;) -J ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Crawl-ref-discuss mailing list Crawl-ref-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crawl-ref-discuss
