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[Ryan Macnish <nisshh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yea i agree with you Jay, that suggestion of not using devbuntu in the application name is a great idea.

> From: charl.wentzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: dubuntu-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 22:48:05 +0200
> Subject: [Dubuntu-team] Installer name
> 
> i Guys
> 
> It seems I have hijacked the other thread, hopefully this will now be a
> separate thread.
> 
> Yeah, environment manager isn't the best name yet.  I'm still trying but
> can't find a nice short name:
> - DevBuntu Environment Customizer
> - DevBuntu Environment Installer
> - I give up
> 
> There's of course another idea coming from our previous threads... that
> is that this project could be used for many other applications and not
> just development!  What if you want to do Multimedia such as creating
> music or video editing.  What if you are in Engineering and want to do
> electronic or architectual design.  Education, etc, etc
> 
> There are many places where a set of tools that work together are
> required.  Rather than trying to figure out what is available and test
> all the packages you could answer a few questions and the system could
> make suggestions for you!  Best of all, these suggestions would be based
> on the experience of others.
> 
> DevBuntu is actually just one such application!  So the installer name
> should actually not include DevBuntu in its name.  E.g.
> 
> Custom Environment Manager
> Custom Environment Generator
> Ubuntu Environment Enhancer
> ... whatever
> 
> It's not critical yet, so let's keep the pot stirring for a while
> 
> Charl
> 
> 
> __________________________________________________________
> 
> hi charl.
> 
> >I would like to try something different.  We are essentially breaking
> > away from the idea of just doing package management.  We are trying to
> > delivery an environment not merely selecting packages.
> 
> i should say i was also thinking about 'environment manager' but i
> thought that environment is a much larger term and somebody may treat
> say gnome or bash settings as part of his environment. what confuses me
> is that 'devbuntu' is a name of an os so 'Devbuntu Environment Manager'
> should be something that manages every bit of this os. in fact we'll be
> only managing one piece of os environment - the development environment.
> so maybe we should call it something like 'development environment
> manager'? it's 3 a.m. so i'm not so awake to generate something better.
> anyway if we won't find another name then 'devbuntu environment manager'
> will do.
> 
> regards,
> jay
> 
> On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 12:55 +0200, Charl Wentzel wrote:
> > Hi Guys
> > 
> > Regarding the naming issue...
> > 
> > On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 14:46 +0930, Ryan Macnish wrote:
> > > Im agreeing with Jay about the "Devbuntu Package Manager" name and
> we
> > > could even shorten that when talking about it alot to "DPM" which
> > > sounds pretty cool too.
> > 
> > > > From: jay.27182818@xxxxxxxxx
> > > > btw what about this name for the package manager: 'devbuntu
> package
> > > > manager'. sounds similar to 'synaptic package manager' and quite
> > > > self-descriptive.
> > 
> > I would like to try something different.  We are essentially breaking
> > away from the idea of just doing package management.  We are trying to
> > delivery an environment not merely selecting packages.  
> > 
> > You'll notice this right from the start with the type of questions the
> > installer will ask you, e.g. What is it that you are trying to do?
> > Answer: Gnome GUI development using python, or Command line apps using
> C
> > ++, etc.
> > 
> > So our focus is the end result, i.e. the enviromnent.  The packages
> are
> > just the means to our end.
> > 
> > So how about: 
> > - DevBuntu Environment Mananager
> > - DevBuntu Integrator
> > - etc
> > 
> > Show them from the start that this is a new concept and not just apt,
> > apt-get, synaptic or aptitude re-packaged.
> > 
> > Charl
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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