Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Renaming PyBOMBS

[Philip Balister]

YABS - Yet Another Build System

On 12/22/2015 03:37 PM, Chris Kuethe wrote:
> The only strong opinion I have is an objection to the substring "rpm" due
> to potential confusion with existing RPM installation utilities.
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> GRAB is nice. GRMM too.
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> Other possibilities are GRIP/GRIM: GnuRadio Installation and
> Packages/Modules
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> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Tim <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> 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"
>>
>>> - 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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