I understand the sentiment, but after all the hullabaloo surrounding
fs.exists/path.exists and require('sys')/require('util') I don't
really want to change /anything/. I'd rather deal with the confused
debian users than make more changes due to being the "right thing."--Josh On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Felipe Gasper <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12.7.12 9:52 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> >> What would speak against officially renaming the "node" binary to >> "nodejs"? I understand the reluctance to make changes for no reason, >> but this change would have a reason: it would fix the name collision, >> and would make the program name less generic and more recognizable. >> Possibly even more searchable on e.g. Google. > > > Hear, hear. > > How many widely-used meanings can the word “node” have in software > development? It’s a very generic name that requires context in order to > understand what it means, whereas “perl” and “php” are very clear, and, at > least in computing, “python” and “ruby” are almost as much so. (But don’t > get me started on the spidermonkey binary!) > > “nodejs”++. > > -FG > > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Joshua Holbrook Head of Support Nodejitsu Inc. [email protected] -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
