Can you explain in a sentence/paragraph what it does? I have to admit as a 
newbie to so far not seeing how it fits in to the picture fully.  Perhaps a 
good name will become apparent once its purpose it briefly explained.

On 27 Apr 2015, at 5:32 pm, Antti Kantee <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

Hopefully the last in the series of repo renames which started with the "great 
repo rename of '14" thread, I propose renaming the rumprun-posix repo to 
"rumpctrl".  Rationale follows:

rumprun-posix no longer builds the "unikernel mode" by default.  It's still 
available with the correct switch to the build script, but I assume it's not 
interesting except for developers, and that it will go away completely once we 
have a userspace platform supported in the unified rumprun repository.  Hence, 
to not confuse people new to rump kernels with "rumprun *on posix*" vs. 
"rumprun *for posix applications*", we should get rid of the rumprun-posix name 
at top-level repo.rumpkernel.org.

We've been tossing the name rumprun-remote around a bit.  However, the control 
utilities provided by the repo are not only for rumprun unikernels.  For 
example, one can use the network tools to control a rump kernel/dpdk router.  
Therefore, the new name should not contain "rumprun".

Hence, my proposal of "rumpctrl".

Thoughts?



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