My reaction is negative -- it looks like a ***REALLY*** superlatively goofy name intended as a technical pun, replacing a reasonably serious one (although I'm even happier with just plain "bats"). I don't recall any discussion, but that's probably just my terrible memory, or maybe I was busy when it happened.
I didn't ever bring it up because I didn't want to raise a furor over something so small. It's pretty much "painting the bikeshed" (a programming idiom) for me personally... But since someone's asking, there's my answer. -Wm On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Jude <bookofj...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 4:04 AM, <g...@crawl.develz.org> wrote: >> Rename megabats to bats. >> >> 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
