Re: REQUEST: Name change for Anjuta 2

[Dave Malcolm <david davemalcolm demon co uk>]

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 14:56, Jeroen Zwartepoorte wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> What do you guys think of the following name: "scaffold". According to
> gdict it's: "A temporary structure of timber, boards, etc., for various
> purposes, as for supporting workmen and materials in building".
> 
> I think it's a fitting name for an IDE. What do you think?

"Scaffold", to my UK ears, has unfortunate connotations with the
hangman's noose etc; for executing criminals and subversives in our
colonial past (rather than executing programs).

My dictionary (pocket edition of the Oxford English Dictionary) has that
as the primary meaning, with a synonym for "scaffolding" being a
secondary meaning.  "Scaffolding" is listed as having the meaning you
cite from gdict.

But ignoring that quibble, IMHO, anything is better than having
something called "Anjuta 2" that isn't version two of "Anjuta".  I
mostly got too confused and gave up trying to follow all this stuff
after the gIDE days :-(

I'm quite fond of "GNOME Studio" - shorter, snappier, and maybe less
pretentious than "GNOME Developer Studio".   Though whether the project
should have "GNOME" in its name is an interesting question.


Dave Malcolm
www.conglomerate.org


> 
> A quick search on freshmeat didn't turn up any apps with that name.
> 
> Jeroen
> 
> On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 05:33, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> > I don't know if Anjuta2 will ever become the focus of the core Anjuta
> > team now that Anjuta 1 for Gnome 2 has been gaining so much steam.  I
> > however have expressed my feelings that Anjuta 2 is great codebase that
> > not only builds on Gnome technologies but also has become a sort of
> > testbed on how those thechnologies should be used (Bonobo, user
> > configurable containers, good moduler design, etc.).  
> > 
> > I feel that despite some of the positives of Anjuta 2 it is being
> > over-shadowed by the more feature rich Anjuta project and not being able
> > to stand on its own merits.  Every time there is a new release of Anjuta
> > people get confused on what exactly is released.  Most people do not
> > look at version numbers except to see which one is bigger.  
> > 
> > I propose that Anjuta 2 be renamed to something like Gnome Development
> > Studio (though that may be a bit pretentious) and that it be refocused
> > into a development enviornment that makes working with Gnome
> > technologies easy (HIG, GObjects, Bonobo, GConf, etc.).  Anjuta itself
> > can continue on being the great general purpose IDE that it is.
> > 
> > As for those who hate to split and duplicate efforts I say that this
> > would not be the case.  Anjuta 2 features a moduler design that allows
> > its components to be reused by other programs (as in the case of
> > gtksourceview being used by gedit).  It is also my understanding that
> > Anjuta 1 can or will be able to use Anjuta 2 plugins at some point.  
> > 
> > Choice is good and while it was good intentions that led the Anjuta team
> > and gIDE team to join forces, reality stepped in and the two could never
> > realy be merged.  Now, I belive, it is time to part ways while
> > maintaining the similar goals of developing great development tools for
> > both Linux and Gnome. 
> > 
> > --
> > J5
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