Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal packages - cabbages

2009-09-22 Thread Jason Dusek
2009/09/21 Conor McBride co...@strictlypositive.org: ...or have unpleasant memories of being made to eat sulphurous overboiled cabbage on pain of no pudding. Well, maybe the Cabal cabbages are Napa cabbages or red cabbages or pickled cabbages or Savoy cabbages? It is too bad, really,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal packages - cabbages

2009-09-22 Thread david48
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Jason Dusek jason.du...@gmail.com wrote:  Some day, we're going to need a short, catchy name for Cabal  packages. Let's call them cabbages. C'est chou ! :-P +1 ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal packages - cabbages

2009-09-22 Thread Conor McBride
Hi Jason On 22 Sep 2009, at 10:04, Jason Dusek wrote: 2009/09/21 Conor McBride co...@strictlypositive.org: ...or have unpleasant memories of being made to eat sulphurous overboiled cabbage on pain of no pudding. Well, maybe the Cabal cabbages are Napa cabbages or red cabbages or pickled

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal packages - cabbages

2009-09-22 Thread D. Manning
2009/9/22 Conor McBride co...@strictlypositive.org I'm just suggesting that the marketing department consider the variety of connotations and suggestions the term evokes before adopting it: legendary backfirings abound (the Spanish sales failure of a car called the nova, for example). Its

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal packages - cabbages

2009-09-22 Thread Conor McBride
Hi On 22 Sep 2009, at 15:25, D. Manning wrote: 2009/9/22 Conor McBride co...@strictlypositive.org I'm just suggesting that the marketing department consider the variety of connotations and suggestions the term evokes before adopting it: legendary backfirings abound (the Spanish sales failure

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal packages - cabbages

2009-09-21 Thread Conor McBride
On 20 Sep 2009, at 23:11, Jason Dusek wrote: Some day, we're going to need a short, catchy name for Cabal packages. Let's call them cabbages. Not that this is a good reason to change your mind, but some sufficiently ancient Brits may remember a televisual entertainment programme in which

[Haskell-cafe] Cabal packages - cabbages

2009-09-20 Thread Jason Dusek
Some day, we're going to need a short, catchy name for Cabal packages. Let's call them cabbages. -- Jason Dusek ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal packages - cabbages

2009-09-20 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Jason Dusek jason.du...@gmail.com wrote:  Some day, we're going to need a short, catchy name for Cabal  packages. Let's call them cabbages. +1 Yes, let's. Jeff Wheeler ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal packages - cabbages

2009-09-20 Thread Joe Fredette
I also agree. Hackage should also be renamed to something appropriate. The Cabbage Patch? On Sep 20, 2009, at 6:12 PM, Jeff Wheeler wrote: On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Jason Dusek jason.du...@gmail.com wrote: Some day, we're going to need a short, catchy name for Cabal packages.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal packages - cabbages

2009-09-20 Thread Jason Dusek
File extension ideas: .choux -- My favorite. .kohl -- Less characters. .cbz-- More conventional. .cbg.gz, .cbg.bz2 -- Allows one to be specific about -- compression. The last one

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal packages - cabbages

2009-09-20 Thread Jason Dusek
2009/09/20 Joe Fredette jfred...@gmail.com: I also agree. Hackage should also be renamed to something appropriate. The Cabbage Patch? +1 -- Jason Dusek ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal packages - cabbages

2009-09-20 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Joe Fredette jfred...@gmail.com wrote: The Cabbage Patch? 'Patch' is pretty well defined, so using it here seems somewhat awkward and confused to me. Plus, I don't think we really want to sound childish, and the first thing I think of is the cabbage patch kid

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal packages - cabbages

2009-09-20 Thread Don Stewart
jeff: On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Joe Fredette jfred...@gmail.com wrote: The Cabbage Patch? 'Patch' is pretty well defined, so using it here seems somewhat awkward and confused to me. Plus, I don't think we really want to sound childish, and the first thing I think of is the