What's in a name?
I know I really shouldn't be spending too much time and effort on a name, but for some reason, it's really bothering me that I can't come up with good names for the projects I'm working on. The first (and main) project is a module that provides a class for holding information related to audio/video encoding/muxing and methods that encode/mux based on that info. The aim is to provide a backend for encoding/muxing programs. Essentially, one using the module can write a program that is essentially an interface without worrying about writing any wrappers around encoding/muxing programs or logic to manipulate related data. The other two are programs that use the module. One is a CLI program and the other is a PyQt GUI program. I came up with abstract names (see below) that I don't really like (because they're so abstract). I also came up with another name for the module that's okay: Maven (Module for Audio and Video ENcoding). In case you want to see the code (not complete by a long shot, and they need to be refactored): Module - http://elucidation.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/elucidation/elucidation/file/f8da0b15ecca/elucidation.py CLI app - http://disillusion-cli.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/disillusion-cli/disillusion-cli/file/947d230dbfc3/disillusion.py I have no code written for the GUI app yet. Any ideas? -- CPython 3.2.1 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17592 | Thunderbird 5.0 PGP/GPG Public Key ID: 0xF88E034060A78FCB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: What's in a name?
Andrew Berg wrote: The first (and main) project is a module that provides a class for holding information related to audio/video encoding/muxing and methods that encode/mux based on that info. Any ideas? Multiplexing Audio Video Encoder MuXaven -- m harris FSF ...free as in freedom/ http://webpages.charter.net/harrismh777/gnulinux/gnulinux.htm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: What's in a name?
On 7/29/2011 11:25 PM, Andrew Berg wrote: In case you want to see the code (not complete by a long shot, and they need to be refactored): Module - http://elucidation.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/elucidation/elucidation/file/f8da0b15ecca/elucidation.py CLI app - http://disillusion-cli.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/disillusion-cli/disillusion-cli/file/947d230dbfc3/disillusion.py I have no code written for the GUI app yet. Any ideas? PyMetaMux ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: What's in a name?
Andrew Berg wrote: I know I really shouldn't be spending too much time and effort on a name, but for some reason, it's really bothering me that I can't come up with good names for the projects I'm working on. I came up with abstract names (see below) that I don't really like (because they're so abstract). I also came up with another name for the module that's okay: Maven (Module for Audio and Video ENcoding). Any ideas? Maven sounds good to me. I personally don't care for python module/package names that start with 'py' -- it's not like I'm going to have a Perl or Pascal module in my site-packages. ;) Good luck! ~Ethan~ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: What's in a name?
I think I'll stick with Maven for the module, but the two others really need names, and I have nothing. -- CPython 3.2.1 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17592 | Thunderbird 5.0 PGP/GPG Public Key ID: 0xF88E034060A78FCB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: What's in a name?
Andrew Berg writes: > I think I'll stick with Maven for the module, but the two others really > need names, and I have nothing. Maven is already a well-established name for an existing free-software work http://maven.apache.org/>. I recommend choosing a name which isn't already taken by any well-known project (and wish you luck in that search :-) -- \“Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “Wuh, I think | `\so, Brain, but will they let the Cranberry Duchess stay in the | _o__) Lincoln Bedroom?” —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: What's in a name?
On 2011.07.31 09:15 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Maven is already a well-established name for an existing free-software > work http://maven.apache.org/>. Well of course. All the good names are taken. :P I even came up with cavelib and it was taken ( http://www.mechdyne.com/cavelib.aspx ). Maybe I'll just stick to abstract names then. -- CPython 3.2.1 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17592 | Thunderbird 5.0 PGP/GPG Public Key ID: 0xF88E034060A78FCB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: What's in a name?
Andrew Berg wrote: Well of course. All the good names are taken. :P I even came up with cavelib and it was taken ( http://www.mechdyne.com/cavelib.aspx ). A couple of ideas that don't seem to turn up anything software-related: Flummux Flavius -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: What's in a name?
Hmm How about Rainbow Video Encoder Wrapper (Rainbow View for short - RView is taken, possibly multiple times)? I added an arbitrary word to a generic name, and the result doesn't seem to be taken by anything software-related. It wraps more than just video encoders (in fact, x264 will likely be the only one it wraps until it's matured quite a bit :P ), but I didn't want the name to get too long. The module itself will likely be called just rainbow.py. -- CPython 3.2.1 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17592 | Thunderbird 5.0 PGP/GPG Public Key ID: 0xF88E034060A78FCB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: What's in a name?
On Aug 1, 10:11 am, Andrew Berg wrote: > Hmm > How about Rainbow Video Encoder Wrapper (Rainbow View for short - RView > is taken, possibly multiple times)? > I added an arbitrary word to a generic name, and the result doesn't seem > to be taken by anything software-related. It wraps more than just video > encoders (in fact, x264 will likely be the only one it wraps until it's > matured quite a bit :P ), but I didn't want the name to get too long. > The module itself will likely be called just rainbow.py. > > -- > CPython 3.2.1 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17592 | Thunderbird 5.0 > PGP/GPG Public Key ID: 0xF88E034060A78FCB Andrew How about SuperMux with a command line interface called Cyclops and a GUI fornt end called VisualMux -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
