Public Impressions

[John Arbash Meinel]

Matthieu Moy wrote:
> John Yates wrote:
> 
>> In light of the recent icon discussion how about renaming the project
>> olive, abbreviation olv?
> 
> I think it's far to late to change the name of the _project_. bzr starts
> to be known, but many people wouldn't know that "olive" is the new name
> of bazaar ... We already have Bazaar 2.0/Bazaar-NG/bzr, I don't want to
> have to say "Olive, formerly known as Bazaar 2.0, AKA Bazaar-NG, whose
> executable was bzr" to let people understand what I'm talking about.

I would tend to agree with you. Though it would be kind of fun to be
"Olive". I think bazaar has a better back story, though.

> 
> bzr is fine for my dvorak-fr ;-)
> 
> How about just bz otherwise? Perhaps a confusion with bzip/bunzip ...
> 
> Ah, one point in favor of keeping bzr : we have a .bzr/ directory which
> makes sense if the program is called bzr, and changing this has a
> considerable impact on backward compatibility. So, perhaps keeping bzr
> and letting users alias it to something else if they use it too much is OK.
> 

Actually, 'bz' is pretty easy to type either way. And it has the
interesting property that it is typed with the same fingers on both
qwerty and dvorak-en, just with the left hand on qwerty, and right hand
on dvorak.

I don't know if it would get confused with the bzip2 tools, since there
is probably a stronger association with 'bz' there.

As far as telling them to use an alias... It is a desire to make it easy
to use "out-of-the-box". People need to type the name often, not quite
as often as the editor, but I think it becomes something typed quite
frequently.
And having one of the installation steps be "now create an alias to
another name" doesn't seem like a nice first step.
Maybe we could default to installing both 'bzr' and 'bz' as front ends.

John
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