YABS - Yet Another Build System On 12/22/2015 03:37 PM, Chris Kuethe wrote: > The only strong opinion I have is an objection to the substring "rpm" due > to potential confusion with existing RPM installation utilities. > > GRAB is nice. GRMM too. > > Other possibilities are GRIP/GRIM: GnuRadio Installation and > Packages/Modules > > > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Tim <tim.oshea...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Martin, >> Excited to see pybombs2 emerging as stable ! >> A few thoughts on the naming below -- >> -Tim >> >> On 12/22/2015 03:10 PM, Martin Braun wrote: >>> There's been some demand to rename PyBOMBS, and now that we're >>> re-releasing it, this is a good time to think about it. Complaints about >>> the name include: >>> >>> - It may or may not be true that people have been detained by TSA for >>> working on PyBOMBS at the airport[1] >>> - The name suggests a Python-related packages (like Pylint, PyPI...) >>> rather than a GNU Radio-related tool >> it doesn’t really need to be gnu radio specific -- >> it was written to work with any such light weight recipes that follow >> standard git/cmake or other common or custom format >> >>> - People can't agree on a capitalization >>> - No one can remember what the acronym stands for >>> >>> Sure, this is not a critical thing, but now's a good chance to bring it >>> up and also, this is not a joke :) >>> >>> Here's how we're going to do this: >>> >>> - Please suggest new names in this thread. >>> - I will choose from those names based on 'can I live with this name', >>> 100% subjectively. >>> - New names will be put up for a vote. This will include an option to >>> keep the old name. >>> - Finally, the result of the vote will be used as a strong suggestion on >>> what the new name will be. >>> >>> There already have been some suggestions: >>> >>> - gromit -- the GNU Radio out-of-tree module installation tool >> this name makes me cringe horribly >> "installation tool" isn't really a fair characterization since it is >> setting up a development environment >> apt-get or standard binary installs are more "installation tool" >> >>> - the groot >> also - horrible cringe factor, >> >>> - grpm -- the GNU Radio package manager >> I like grpm -- >> other similar possibilities: >> >> rmm - radio module manager >> grmm - gnu radio module manager >> gmm - gnuradio module manager >> spm - SDR Packager Manager >> spm - spm package manager >> >> personally in favour of something short and functional vs cutesy and >> contrived (we already have one of those names) >> three letter package managers seem to be relatively common practice in FOSS >> >> examples: apt, rpm, pip, gpm, npm, ... >> >>> >>> >>> OK guys, bring up the ideas! >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Martin >>> >>> [1] It's not. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss-gnuradio mailing list >>> Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org >>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss-gnuradio mailing list >> Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >
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