"Jacob Carlborg" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On 2011-07-14 21:18, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Jacob Carlborg"<[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... >>> On 2011-07-13 23:03, jdrewsen wrote: >>>> >>>> A good start I think. The first thing that I think should be fixed is >>>> the naming. >>>> >>>> Drake should be called dbuild >>>> Orb should be called dpack >>>> >>>> You read the name and you have an idea of what it does - nothing fancy. >>> >>> "Drake" was probably chosen because it's basically "rake for D" and >>> possibly because "dake" was already taken. "rake" was most likely chosen >>> because it's "make" but the makefiles are written in Ruby instead. >>> >>> I chose "Orbit" as the name of the package manager and named the tool >>> "Orb". Why? No particular reason, but after that someone mentioned it >>> has >>> the same theme as (Digital)Mars and Phobos. >>> >> >> Between "Orb" and "Orange" I was thinking you just liked using names >> based >> on round things :) > > Hehe. I actually started using names of fruits for my projects (I have an > unreleased library named "lime"), don't really know why I chose Orbit. >
Fan of the Mango project? ;)
