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Subject: =?utf-8?Q?dmd=E2=80=99s?= new name
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) 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=E2=80=99s dmd has been around since ~2003=C2=B9.
>
> Changing names is obviously an annoyance, technically and otherwise.
> We=E2=80=99re not opposed to the idea, but that would take a bit more dis=
cussion
> 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 =E2=80=9CGNU=C2=
=A0Shepherd=E2=80=9D
and recently got the green light.

Rationale:

  1. A shepherd looks after sheep (or gnus ;-)), and GNU=C2=A0dmd looks aft=
er
     daemons.

  2. =E2=80=9CShepherd=E2=80=9D ends with a =E2=80=98d=E2=80=99, which make=
s it a good name for a daemon.

  3. It=E2=80=99s a pun in the same spirit as =E2=80=9CGNU Hurd=E2=80=9D.

  4. We might even rename =E2=80=98deco=E2=80=99 to =E2=80=98herd=E2=80=99 =
because it=E2=80=99s the very command
     that allows users to herd their daemons.

Hope you like it.  :-)

Ludo=E2=80=99.