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Scott Carey commented on AVRO-372:
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+1 to AvroDL.
Although it is used now to define an interface, it also describes other things
-- avro schemas and relationships between them. In the future, its role may
expand more and then "interface" would become more a misnomer.
Its future includes "schema management" -- types shared across
schemas/interfaces for example. But Avro Management Language sounds bad to me.
AvroDL is generic. It could be abbreviated ADL. To me "interface" just feels
like extra baggage.
> Rename genavro to something like AvroIDL
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> Key: AVRO-372
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-372
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: java
> Reporter: Todd Lipcon
> Assignee: Doug Cutting
> Fix For: 1.4.0
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> No one likes the name genavro. Let's rename to one of these:
> - AvroIDL (Interface Description Language)
> - AvroHDL (Highlevel Description Language)
> - AvroDL (Description Language)
> The abbreviation IDL might conjure up CORBA nightmares for people. Thoughts?
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