On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Patrick Walton <pwal...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > There's been consensus lately that `core` and `std` are somewhat misnamed. > `core` is really the standard library--the one that would be specified in a > specification if we had one. `std` is an "extras" library and may well end > up sliced up and moved to various packages. > > So it seems prudent to rename `core` to `std`. But that leaves the question > of what to name `std` in the interim. Options that have been suggested are > `extra`, `ext`, and `contrib`. > > Any other opinions?
+1 for renaming `core` to `std`. `std` seems more, uh, standard. +1 for `ext`, short for "extended library". `extra` is OK, too. I'm not a big fan of `contrib`. Lindsey _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
