A straw poll of a few developers in the room with me leads "Platform" and "Util" as the leading choices.
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Andres Osinski <andres.osin...@gmail.com>wrote: > "Platform" is highly descriptive and its "value" is not as subjetive as > "prime". > > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Thad Guidry <thadgui...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> +1 Prime >> >> Prime comes from the Latin " prīmus ", which means First... so it's above >> Chosen, Favored, Normal, Selected, and all the rest. In Old French, prim, >> means the first hour, go fig. >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Graydon Hoare <gray...@mozilla.com>wrote: >> >>> On 13-04-24 01:05 PM, Benjamin Striegel wrote: >>> > It's important to keep in mind that much of the value of calling >>> > something the "standard" library is so that users *know* that the >>> > libraries within are blessed by the language developers themselves, and >>> > therefore gives them the peace of mind that the code within is >>> > featureful, reliable, supported in the long-term, and well-known by the >>> > community. Please select a name that adequately expresses the authority >>> > of such a library. >>> >>> Agreed. This packaging will be of a sort that _does_ represent a level >>> of support from the language maintainers, version-to-version. So ... >>> absent other suggestions I will return to my preferred passtime of >>> thesaurus hunting: >>> >>> - Common >>> - Platform >>> - Staple >>> - Stock >>> - Supported >>> - Base >>> - Basis >>> - Usual >>> - Normal >>> - Favored >>> - Selected >>> - Endorsed >>> - Chosen >>> - Prime >>> >>> Any of these sound pleasant to the hear? >>> >>> -Graydon >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Rust-dev mailing list >>> Rust-dev@mozilla.org >>> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> -Thad >> http://www.freebase.com/view/en/thad_guidry >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Rust-dev mailing list >> Rust-dev@mozilla.org >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev >> >> > > > -- > Andrés Osinski > http://www.andresosinski.com.ar/ > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > Rust-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > >
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