Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:On 18 Nov 2003, at 01:56, Oliver Zeigermann wrote:
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I have set up an attic section where dead code can be moved to (and of course moved back if it comes to life again for whatever reason). Currently, it is empty...About this, I thought that "Attic", as a name, is a bad idea because that conflicts with the "CVS attic" directory. I would suggest to rename it to "scratchpad" or "whiteboard" as it's done in many other ASF projects.
In what respect does it conflict with the CVS attic? I thought it would be a nice name as for CVS users it might be "speaking".
it's a nice name but it's already taken by the creators of cvs (in mindspace terms, at least ;)
from a technical perspective, i'd guess that it'd be fine on capitalization respecting platforms but i suspect that it will cause some difficulties on filesystems which do not respect capitalization.
Other opinions?
i agree with stefano's observation that "whiteboard" and "scratchpad" are the more usual names for this kind of thing. aligning naming conventions isn't critical but it can help to make newbies feel at home quicker.
- robert
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