Totally agreed. I think this is a really important point. It is very
helpful to have a unique Googleable name, especially for beginners.


On 23 December 2015 at 10:16, Tim O'Shea <tim.oshea...@gmail.com> wrote:

> IMO it is generally nice to have a
> ​​
> unique googleable name for an application which doesn't result in five
> trillion unrelated Google results.  While short acronyms will have false
> positives, names like "grab" or any standard English words are generally
> bad choices from this point of view
> Grpm and the like seem fairly unique - pybombs was a win by this measure
>
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015, 1:02 PM Martin Braun <martin.br...@ettus.com> wrote:
>
>> On 23.12.2015 09:28, Stefan Wunsch wrote:
>> > I don't want to destroy your idea, but GRAB sounds like CRAP as well and
>> > you can think of the associated sentences ;)
>>
>> 'grab' is also a very common english verb, so I think people would be
>> able to distinguish. It also sounds like 'crab' if you like :)
>>
>> M
>>
>> >
>> > On 12/22/2015 09:31 PM, Richard Bell wrote:
>> >> GRAB = Gnu RAdio Basic installer
>> >>
>> >> Then we can say things like "Go GRAB it" when referring to a needed
>> module
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Martin Braun <martin.br...@ettus.com
>> >
>> >> 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
>> >>> - 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
>> >>> - the groot
>> >>> - grpm -- the GNU Radio package manager
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> OK guys, bring up the ideas!
>> >>>
>> >>> Cheers,
>> >>> Martin
>> >>>
>> >>> [1] It's not.
>> >>>
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