[Urwid] (not)Renaming Urwid and splitting up the repo

[Ian Ward]

Sascha Silbe wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:50:15PM -0400, Ian Ward wrote:
> 
>>>> I didn't think of that.  Do you have another name in mind?
>>> Why don't you keep "Urwid"? That name is unique (!) and doesn't look 
>>> as noncreative as conui, consoleui or whatever. I like it. If I only 
>>> had such good names for my own projects. :)
>> It is unique, and maybe Urwid sounds better in German than English :-)
> Probably. What about just declaring the (german) pronounciation on the 
> home page? ;)

Yes, I could do that.  And I like the "ancestral widget" meaning Rebecca 
mentioned.

>> I believe that giving the project a more meaningful name will help 
>> people know at a glance if it might be of interest to them, and later 
>> remember the project name.
> I don't think conui or consoleui is much more descriptive. In my 
> experience, most package names are either some kind of technical 
> function description (like daemontools, pcb, gpsd) or a chosen name that 
> doesn't directly (i.e. without reading the description) reflect the 
> function (e.g. Apache, KDE, Firefox).
> Technical function names: Most often there are several similarly or even 
> identically named projects that in the best case represent something 
> completely different (daemon tools CD emulation [1]) and in the worst 
> case it's a directly "competing" product (e.g. GPSd [2] - apperently 
> down ATM - or NCSA httpd vs. CERN httpd [3]).
> Unique names: You need to read the description to gather what it does, 
> but you'd need to do that anyway since even a technical function name 
> doesn't give you enough details (console UI? for what application? Win32 
> or game console? etc.). Distinctive names are easier to remember, which 
> might even help adoption. Often enough, I remember having seen some 
> interesting library somewhere that I now would have a use for now, but 
> don't find it anywhere because there are so much similarly named things 
> that it's like finding a needle in a haystack. Just take a look at the 
> Google results for "consoleui". Wouldn't find urwid anywhere in there. 
> Instead, take a look at the 517 matches for "urwid". Apart from usual 
> SPAM entries, every single one (well, at least those I checked :) ) 
> actually is about this project!

Your arguments are good, and more than a few people like the current 
name.  Also, changing the name is a long and boring process with lots of 
other drawbacks.

So I will save "conui" for the eventual C port of Urwid (just because 
someone uses a lesser language doesn't mean they should be stuck without 
a good console UI library)

Ian
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