[Urwid] Renaming Urwid and splitting up the repo
Ian Ward
ian at excess.org
Sun Sep 14 13:14:21 EDT 2008
The current code is in a mercurial repository that includes named
branches coming from the older svn repo. Mercurial doesn't handle named
branches very well (especially in my case where they conflict with tag
names) so I am planning to split the repository into two or more clones.
Splitting the repo will break all the current links, and I need to
change and upgrade Trac to use mercurial (it still uses svn), breaking
more links. So I am considering making another change at the same time:
I am planning to rename Urwid to either conui or consoleui.
"Urwid" was an awkward shortening of "cURses WIDgets", but the library
has grown to more than that.
"conui":
* could be pronounced the same as "ennui" (only 2 syllables)
* doesn't conflict with other software naming
* quick to type
* similar naming to the old ms-dos conio.h
"consoleui":
* precisely describes purpose of library
* some conflict with other software names
* longer to type
I want your opinion, which would you rather use?
Ian
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