Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Renaming PyBOMBS

[Murray Thomson]

On Dec 22, 2015 8:31 PM, "Tim" <tim.oshea753@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"

What about

GRDEV : GnuRadio Development EnVironment

>
> > - 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.
> >
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