On 5 May 2015 at 21:05, Antti Kantee <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 05/05/15 15:19, Martin Lucina wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, 05.05.2015 at 11:19, Antti Kantee wrote:
>>
>>> Do we want to keep the name "app-tools"? AFAIR, it was coined (by
>>> Ian?) before we'd really settled in on other terminology. Is simply
>>> rumprun-tools better?
>>>
>>
>> I have no opinion. It's more of an "internal" name and seems as good as
>> any.
>>
>
> If nobody has an opinion, I'm pulling the "consistency matters to me" card
> (and to probably everyone new to the project who's trying to do some
> internal hacking and is wondering what's an "app" and why we need
> "app-tools").
>
> I'm a bit unhappy with "baremetal". It's long and not very
>>> descriptive. At least we'll get rid of the extra "bmk" term, which
>>> is good, but a better term for "baremetal" would be nice to invent.
>>>
>>
>> How about just "metal" ?
>>
>
> It's shorter, but not really better. I was tossing around "hw" in my head
> earlier, which is even shorter, but it's still a bad name since the
> platform is not only for hardware.
How about not having a term for baremetal? Just rumprun. That way,
rumprun{posix, xen} appear as extension/specialization of the common case,
baremetal.
Cheers,
--krishna
