[csw-maintainers] Proposal for name of our GAR version

Sebastian Kayser skayser at opencsw.org
Tue Oct 13 23:06:54 CEST 2009


Sebastian Kayser wrote on 13.10.2009 22:37:
> Dagobert Michelsen wrote on 07.10.2009 14:36:
>> I did some thinking about a name for our version of the GAR build
>> system and ended up with "GARISOL". This is an anagram of girasol,
>> which is italian for sunflower showing the affinity both to GAR
>> and Solaris without being an actual word - this makes searching for
>> it and reserving names easier.
>>
>> Feedback especially welcome!
> 
> What i noticed during summer camp is that short names are handy when it
> comes to something that you talk about very often. OpenCSW was almost
> too long to pronounce in every second sentence.
> 
> "GAR" equals to one syllable, "GA-RI-SOL" to three of them.

As an idea

  "garcel: Putting together your SVR4/IPS/... parcel"

With a bit of imagination the pronunciation even comes close to GARISOL
(or the SOL part of it) and it is one syllable less: GAR-CEL.

Sebastian



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