[Gd-hackers] Discussing using the name Open Dylan

[Peter Robisch]

>>>Carl Gay wrote to Hannes Mehnert:
>>> Hi.  If you're planning on renaming trunk/fundev to trunk/opendylan,

>> this may be a good time to discuss using the name Open Dylan to refer

> to the umbrella group maintaining both Dylan implementations and 
>> coming up with a different name for The Dylan Implementation 
>> Previously Known as Functional Developer.  Dipkafund?
> Hannes Mehnert replied:
> Yes, I like the idea to use Open Dylan for the group maintaining Dylan

> Compilers. And would be happy if we come up with a different name for 
> Functional Developer. Suggestions, anyone?


If we turn to using the name Open Dylan for the Dylan Community I
suggest that the Dylan implementations are named after their roots. 
So one will be known as GD (Gwydion Dylan) and has its roots in the
CMU's Gywdion Project. For the other implemenation it depends on your
viewpoint who you view as root. Functional Objects contributed the code,
but the implementation itsself has its root in the work of Harlequin. I
prefer to use Harlequin as root. So the other implementation will be
named HD (Harlequin Dylan) and has its roots in the work of Harlequin.
Also most of the documents provided with the FunDev sources are
originally Harlequin documents.

May be it is necessary to distinguish the Harlequin rooted version more
strongly from the original HD of the old days. In this case I would come
up with the implementation names like
* Odegwy     for Open Dylan Environment GWYdion based
             Looks better than ODeGWY or ODEGWY 
* Odequin    for Open Dylan Environment HarleQUIN based

The site than would have URLs like

  http://www.opendylan.org/downloads/gwydion
  http://www.opendylan.org/downloads/harlequin

or even better from my point of view

  http://www.opendylan.org/downloads/ode/gwy
  http://www.opendylan.org/downloads/ode/quin

BTW a new verison umbrelling both implementation could be named

  http://www.opendylan.org/downloads/ode/sext

To understand it: In german musical intervals are called Quinte, Sexte,
Septime. The english terms are perfect 5th, major 6th, major 7th. 
Oh, may be this is also a minor reminiscence of Jonathan Bachrach poster
presentation of his Dylan implemenation back in 1993 at the
INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER MUSIC CONFERENCE in Waseda University, Tokyo,
Japan.

My cents,

	pet-ro