Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 19:16 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: >> Smart may be better than my ideas, but I still don't like it very >> much. > > "I don't know what I like, but I know what I don't like." :)
Yes :) >> There has to be someone here with an idea. I guess Media should >> be part of the name, maybe also Python. We could also do the same as >> the Gnome, KDE and Enlightenment people and use one letter to define >> everything, like 'm' for media. > > No, that's lame. :) OK. Like crunchy wrote: I'm bad at this. >> But you are right, we aren't good at this. And Tack: beacon is a nice >> name, maybe you have more good ideas (BTW, mebox isn't very clever :) > > MeBox may not be clever, but it has a couple things going for it: > > - It's short and easy to spell. > - It's more or less obvious to pronounce. > - The meaning is in the name: Media Box That's true. > Beacon is a bit more clever, but it's also obscure. But that's ok, > because beacon isn't for end users. And neither is this thing whose > name we're trying to come up with right now, so I suppose we could > afford a more obscure name. Agreed. But even for end users a obscure name is ok. > So, first, let's define this thing. It is an umbrella for a bunch of > projects whose main common attribute is that they involve media in some > way. We have pyimlib2, a graphics library; pyevas, a canvas; some > display code for X11; beacon if I ever get to work on it; mmpython and > pywebinfo maybe? Yes, mmpython and pywebinfo, too. And also pyepg. > We're making a library that is useful for writing an app that has to > deal with multimedia in some way. Shared Media Application Toolset > Repository was actually pretty descriptive. :) The long name is ok, I only don't like smart. It's not that I hate it, but maybe we can come up with something better. If not, smart would be ok for me. > Well, there's a bit of brainstorming. We still don't know where we want to use that name? In a module? Inside the name? So import smart.Imlib2? I guess pysmart-imlib2 is too long. Dischi -- Communism is man's exploitation of man. Capitalism is just the opposite.
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