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

Mike Watters mwatters at opencsw.org
Tue Oct 13 23:13:49 CEST 2009


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Sebastian Kayser wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Sorry, no alternative option from my side for now.
> 
> Sebastian
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I vote for mGAR  short, sweet, easy to type

or PBC ( Package Builder - CSW)

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~Mike
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and more violent.  It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage --
to move in the opposite direction." --> Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955
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