On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 01:20:52PM +0200, Sander Striker wrote: > > From: Ryan Bloom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 29 September 2001 07:19 >... > > Okay, this has been decided by the PMC. We will accept this project. The > > name that the PMC would like to use for this project is apr-serf. > > Ok, great. One question though: why 'serf'?
OtherBill had a very good point, in that "apr-client" is a bit too generic. He suggested "apr-htclient" but I thought that was a bit too much of a mouthful for a project name... I suggested taking a page from the XML and Java guys, and using a more interesting name. So... I figured "a client is subservient to the server". So the name "serf" works well in that regard, meaning a slave to the server. It is also a homonym for "surf", which is what an HTTP client does... Seems like others agreed, and so now we have apr-serf :-) Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
