On Thursday 14 July 2011 15:18:46 Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "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 :)
That and names starting with "Or". - Jonathan M Davis