"Jacob Carlborg" <d...@me.com> wrote in message news:ivnfk8$2v3p$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 2011-07-13 23:03, jdrewsen wrote: >> >> A good start I think. The first thing that I think should be fixed is >> the naming. >> >> Drake should be called dbuild >> Orb should be called dpack >> >> You read the name and you have an idea of what it does - nothing fancy. > > "Drake" was probably chosen because it's basically "rake for D" and > possibly because "dake" was already taken. "rake" was most likely chosen > because it's "make" but the makefiles are written in Ruby instead. > > I chose "Orbit" as the name of the package manager and named the tool > "Orb". Why? No particular reason, but after that someone mentioned it has > the same theme as (Digital)Mars and Phobos. >
Between "Orb" and "Orange" I was thinking you just liked using names based on round things :)
