Re: [boost] New name of bjam.exe

Subject: Re: [boost] New name of bjam.exe
From: Bo Persson (bop_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-22 13:55:26

Paul A. Bristow wrote:
> I think we should immediately remove both boob, baby and babe from
> the list.
>
> Google searches will be too revealing ;-)
>
> Paul

And how good is B2 ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-2_Spirit

or BBL?

http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/BBL

Be Back Later sounds bad for a fast(?) build system

and if we want to avoid religious connection, how good is BBT?

Bhaktivedanta Book Trust

http://www.krishna.se/

Bo Persson

>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden]
>> [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Matthew
>> Chambers
>> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 4:01 PM
>> To: boost_at_[hidden]
>> Subject: Re: [boost] New name of bjam.exe
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/22/2010 9:22 AM, Roland Bock wrote:
>>> Reading the contributions to this thread makes me wonder:
>>>
>>> How is this ever going to be decided? Is there a policy for
>>> changing names within boost?
>> There have been a lot of names proposed and quite a bit of
>> dissension about the name changing at all due to build script
>> breakage. However, I'm pretty sure the
>> names not derived from "Boost.Build" are disqualified because they
>> would either defeat the purpose of the renaming or they would
>> require rebranding of
>> Boost.Build in its entirety.  And the concerns about build script
>> breakage are nullified if my suggestion of leaving a (deprecated)
>> bjam wrapper executable to
>> call the new executable is used. So that still leaves a pretty
>> long list, but at least they're all quite similar:
>> bb
>> bbv2
>> bbuild
>> bboost
>> boostie
>> boosty
>> buildb
>> bmake
>> bbmake
>> baby
>> babe
>> b2
>> bbl
>> bam
>> bbt
>> boob
>> boobi
>>
>> Apologies if I missed a few.
>> -Matt
>>
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