Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Renaming PyBOMBS

[Martin Braun]

On 22.12.2015 12:31, Tim wrote:
>> - 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

This is a good point, actually. Already, it installs things like Boost,
gcc, git... etc. in case people didn't know.

> 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

Having something that's easily typable on most keyboard layouts is also
a nice to have.

Cheers,
M