On 2015-05-13 20:56-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: >> On May 13, 2015, at 8:43 PM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote: [...] But clearly the wingcc name is >> now a misnomer. Of course, you don't want to break backwards >> compatibility on this name now unless there is a really good reason, >> but one possible good reason is if someone could think up a really >> compelling name for this device driver that we all immediately like. > > How about mswin.
I don't particularly like that name because it emphasizes Microsoft. That company clearly is in complete charge of the Windows platform, but there are at least open enough about the specifications of that platform that it is possible for others (such as the Wine developers) to implement a Windows platform as well. For example, the wingcc driver works fine on the Wine version of Windows according to my tests. Before I posed my question, I was thinking of just "win", but I think that is so bland it is almost meaningless. Another possibility is iwin (where the i stands for interactive), but again too bland. Just free-associating here, but how about something like winwidget to follow (roughly) the naming scheme for both our wxwidgets and our qtwidget devices? Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
