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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: on the importance of names
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:25:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y63w1sp3.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d3l8bo6y.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:52:37 +0200")

On Wed 30 Mar 2011 17:52, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hello Guilers of the Guild!

Haha! Hello, Guiler of the Guild!

> Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> So!  My new proposal is "guild".
>
> [...]
>
>> But that doesn't mention the real advantage of "guild", which is how you
>> feel when you type it or tell it to someone: that you pertain to a
>> secret society of wizards!  Who wouldn't want to pertain to such a
>> guild?  I feel awesomer just for having typed it.
>
> OK, I think you’ve convinced me.  :-)
>
> Would you like the new name to be available starting from 2.0.1 or
> 2.1?

Sweet!

It would be nice to add it in 2.0.x, as it's a compatible change.  But,
there's no need for it to hold back a 2.0.1 release; there's a lot of
NEWS to write up there, and we should get that out soonish.

Regards,

Andy
-- 
http://wingolog.org/



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-30 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-19 11:36 proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools Andy Wingo
2011-03-20 23:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-03-21  8:27   ` Andy Wingo
2011-03-21 11:51     ` nalaginrut
2011-03-21 11:58       ` nalaginrut
2011-03-21 12:16     ` Barry Fishman
2011-03-21 14:10       ` Neil Jerram
2011-03-21 19:28         ` Andy Wingo
2011-03-21 21:50           ` Neil Jerram
2011-03-30 10:51             ` Andy Wingo
2011-03-30 18:27               ` Neil Jerram
2011-03-21 16:32       ` dsmich
2011-03-21 15:12     ` David Pirotte
2011-03-21 15:00   ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2011-03-30 11:08   ` on the importance of names (was: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools) Andy Wingo
2011-03-30 13:11     ` Noah Lavine
2011-03-30 13:15     ` nalaginrut
2011-03-30 15:52     ` on the importance of names Ludovic Courtès
2011-03-30 16:25       ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2011-03-31  9:32         ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-05-31 20:38           ` Andy Wingo
2011-05-31 21:55             ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-03-30 18:11     ` Neil Jerram

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