From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dmd’s new name
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2016 05:21:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87poxc4s6o.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twmpnlw5.fsf_-_@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
>
>> Walter Bright <walter@digitalmars.com> skribis:
>>
>>> The D programming language compiler has been called dmd since about
>>> 2000 or so. In order to avoid confusion, may I request that the Gnu
>>> dmd ("Daemons-managing Daemon") change its acronym?
>>
>> For the record, GNU’s dmd has been around since ~2003¹.
>>
>> Changing names is obviously an annoyance, technically and otherwise.
>> We’re not opposed to the idea, but that would take a bit more discussion
>> among developers.
>
> You might remember this discussion from March 2015.
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-03/msg00176.html
>
> I proposed to Richard Stallman that we change the name to “GNUShepherd”
> and recently got the green light.
>
> Rationale:
>
> 1. A shepherd looks after sheep (or gnus ;-)), and GNUdmd looks after
> daemons.
>
> 2. “Shepherd” ends with a ‘d’, which makes it a good name for a daemon.
>
> 3. It’s a pun in the same spirit as “GNU Hurd”.
>
> 4. We might even rename ‘deco’ to ‘herd’ because it’s the very command
> that allows users to herd their daemons.
>
> Hope you like it. :-)
I do! I’m happy this issue has been solved. It’s also nice that
“shepherd” can be pronounced and is not another abbreviation that has to
be spelled out.
~~ Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-08 4:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-04 22:07 dmd D Programming Language compiler Walter Bright
2015-03-17 17:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-03-17 18:58 ` Walter Bright
2016-01-28 10:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-29 2:22 ` Walter Bright
2016-01-07 21:02 ` dmd’s new name Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-07 20:35 ` d.4.n.1
2016-01-07 21:09 ` dmd’s " Florian Paul Schmidt
2016-01-08 4:21 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2016-01-08 9:06 ` Adam Pribyl
2016-01-08 10:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-16 14:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
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