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Doug Cutting commented on AVRO-372:
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I still prefer IDL, because it's a well-known term whose meaning matches what
GenAvro does:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_description_language
One can indeed specify no messages in a protocol and use GenAvro to generate a
set of coordinated classes. Does that feature mean it's not an IDL? I think
it just means that sets of coordinated classes are a useful subset of what an
IDL can express, and that IDL is still a good term for the full set of
functionality.
> 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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