-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/2011 05:11 PM, Mike Orr wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Ben Bangert <b...@groovie.org> wrote: >> On Mar 21, 2011, at 1:48 PM, Mike Orr wrote: >> >>> "Template" has been a problem for years. Even if people can figure it >>> out, it's cumbersome to write in documentation and tutorials where you >>> have to explain that a template (skeleton) is not a template (file) >>> although some of its files are templates. And the phrase "application >>> template" is long and cumbersome when you have to repeat it many >>> times. >> >> Ah, good point. I guess I'm too used to explaining things in person. ;) >> >> So any reason it *shouldnt* be called 'scaffolding' given its already a well >> known name that people already associate with this exact thing? I mean, I >> can see how 'blueprint' can technically be a more accurate term, but >> existing re-use of the name and lack of anyone already associating it with >> this seems like a point against it. > > 'Skeleton' is a long-established term in Unix where it refers to the > files initially copied to a newly-created home directory. That's an > exact analogue of what we're doing. > > "Scaffold" or "Scaffolding" would be OK too, although I'd prefer the > shorter "Scaffold". "Scaffolding" connotes the ad-hoc process of > constructing it individually for each building, while "Scaffold" > sounds like a product that remains the same over many uses, which is > how an app template works. > > There's also that word "Fixture" that some people call a class that > acts as a framework for unittests.
Hmm, "scaffold" brings to mind images of the "Newgate jig" / hangman's platform to me, but what do I know? Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2HwEkACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ4D9wCePZA5W2MJcD5Bmi2pEByXkOGz u5gAoLSEk20i0v7pH8orK3rAcudN1ilE =ZP1d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to pylons-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-devel?hl=en.
