The only strong opinion I have is an objection to the substring "rpm" due to potential confusion with existing RPM installation utilities.
GRAB is nice. GRMM too. Other possibilities are GRIP/GRIM: GnuRadio Installation and Packages/Modules On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Tim <tim.oshea...@gmail.com> wrote: > Martin, > Excited to see pybombs2 emerging as stable ! > A few thoughts on the naming below -- > -Tim > > On 12/22/2015 03:10 PM, Martin Braun wrote: > > There's been some demand to rename PyBOMBS, and now that we're > > re-releasing it, this is a good time to think about it. Complaints about > > the name include: > > > > - It may or may not be true that people have been detained by TSA for > > working on PyBOMBS at the airport[1] > > - The name suggests a Python-related packages (like Pylint, PyPI...) > > rather than a GNU Radio-related tool > it doesn’t really need to be gnu radio specific -- > it was written to work with any such light weight recipes that follow > standard git/cmake or other common or custom format > > > - People can't agree on a capitalization > > - No one can remember what the acronym stands for > > > > Sure, this is not a critical thing, but now's a good chance to bring it > > up and also, this is not a joke :) > > > > Here's how we're going to do this: > > > > - Please suggest new names in this thread. > > - I will choose from those names based on 'can I live with this name', > > 100% subjectively. > > - New names will be put up for a vote. This will include an option to > > keep the old name. > > - Finally, the result of the vote will be used as a strong suggestion on > > what the new name will be. > > > > There already have been some suggestions: > > > > - gromit -- the GNU Radio out-of-tree module installation tool > this name makes me cringe horribly > "installation tool" isn't really a fair characterization since it is > setting up a development environment > apt-get or standard binary installs are more "installation tool" > > > - the groot > also - horrible cringe factor, > > > - grpm -- the GNU Radio package manager > I like grpm -- > other similar possibilities: > > rmm - radio module manager > grmm - gnu radio module manager > gmm - gnuradio module manager > spm - SDR Packager Manager > spm - spm package manager > > personally in favour of something short and functional vs cutesy and > contrived (we already have one of those names) > three letter package managers seem to be relatively common practice in FOSS > > examples: apt, rpm, pip, gpm, npm, ... > > > > > > > OK guys, bring up the ideas! > > > > Cheers, > > Martin > > > > [1] It's not. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio > -- GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?
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