When speaking with a set of interested implementers on Monday, you spend a lot of time on the CLI and they were all puzzled at “larva”. It was then explained that “once we were clever…” and that this is just vestigial cleverness. No one mistook vestigial cleverness for actual cleverness, though.
+1 for removing :-) thanks, pace On Mar 2, 2016, at 16:10, aditi hilbert <ad...@runtime.io> wrote: > Our OS is named Mynewt. I think having “larva” as its repo name sounds quite > alright to me. Each official release can follow a strict and bland > nomenclature. > > thanks, > aditi > >> On Mar 2, 2016, at 3:28 PM, Sterling Hughes <sterl...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> Howdy, >> >> Awhile ago we decided to be cute about naming things: eggs, eggshells, >> clutches, etc. One holdover from this was larva: our main package >> repository, which includes the OS and most of the packages. >> >> While its painful to rename the git repo: it's only going to get more >> painful as we move forward. Do we think it makes sense to make it clearer, >> and rename this to apache-mynewt-os or apache-mynewt-main? >> >> Sterling >
