On Monday, 27.04.2015 at 20:53, Antti Kantee wrote:
> On 27/04/15 17:50, Martin Lucina wrote:
> >I think including "remote" in the name would be good; it makes it more
> >obvious that the repo contains tools to "remotely control a rump
> >something".
> >
> >If not rumprun-remote (since that implies relation with rumprun-* which is
> >not true), then how about just rump-remote?
> 
> That doesn't a) precisely define what "remote" is b) doesn't convey
> what "rump-remote" does.  The first one might not be an issue, but
> the latter one definitely is.  For comparison, a web browser is not
> called a html-remote.
> 
> I'm sort of tempted to suggest rump-remotecontrol, but I'm not sure
> if that reminds me more of Leisure Suit Larry 1 or one very old "How
> to speak Australian" commercial.

Cute :-)

> Why is it necessary to emphasize remote, i.e. why are you worried
> that someone might confuse it for controlling "opposite of remote"?

"control" without "remote" feels a bit too generic, hence the emphasis.
However, no huge preference either way.
> 

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