Little reminder about Eclipse name usage rules
https://eclipse.org/legal/logo_guidelines.php#ProperEclipse
Actually I believe the correct naming, if we wish to go for the *edition* thing
would be Arduino IDE, Eclipse Edition (note the comma) which makes us
infringe/collide with the Arduino IDE...
Let's brainstorm this, shall we?
We are here talking about a microcontroller development environment, based
on eclipse which includes parts of the Arduino software platform, but goes
further than just Arduino micros.
- µIDE (with µ being the greek letter for micro... hard to represent in
non UTF8 contexts, it would become uIDE)
- microDEV (is this somewhat pretentious?)
- AISA (Ambiente Integrato di Sviluppo per Arduino, italian for Arduino
IDE)
- Beyond IDE (meaning beyond Arduino and Eclipse)
- Avatar (I actually don't know why)
- Pathfinder (well, they use Mars, this was the name of the most known
probe landing on mars.... probably better used as codename for one of our
releases)
- Aride (ARduino IDE, in Italian it means *arid*, plural and feminine)
I know, many of the above are pretty shit, but if we go for brainstorming
we should not be ashamed of the shittiest ideas ever, right? :-)
Roberto
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Jan Baeyens <jan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Marcelo
Please don't pardon :-)
There has been quite some discussion about the name yet. Here is some
history for you.
Historically it has been named "Arduino Eclipse Plugin" as it used to be
only a plugin and because nobody bothered as we never realized it would
ever be as big as it is today.
Then Wim added the product. Which makes the name "Arduino Eclipse Plugin"
"no longer to covers the cargo" (sorry don't know the Englsh expression)
Then there is the casing (which -at simple request of Wim ;-) - I will not
cover)
During the discussion with Eclipse legal it was mentioned that the name
might not be confirm trademark ruling. Basically legal advises to make our
own name product name.
Legally Eclipse allows "eclipse edition" and Arduino does not really
specify what is allowed for software. But for boards "for Arduino" is
allowed but "XXX Arduino" is not.
IMHO "Eclipse for C++" is actually CDT which stands for "C++ development
tools" like JDT stands for "Java development tools". In that trend we could
call it ADT "Arduino Development tools" or MDT (MCU) or IDT (iot).
Personally I do not really like this 3 letter abbreviation words. But I'm
democratic guy ....
One of the reasons I like "Arduino IDE eclipse edition" (but I am not
crazy about it) is that we could make "IDE" and "edition" really small (far
smaller that you have made them on the splash) so it still looks like
"Arduino eclipse" as on the current splash. So that would make the official
name "Arduino IDE eclipse edition", "Arduino Eclipse" in short.
I think these are the headline of the current name discussion
Best regards
Jantje
On 14-05-16 19:22, Marcelo Limori wrote:
Pardon the interruption, but wouldn't be more logical Eclipse Arduino
Edition? You don't have C++ Eclipse Edition, you have Eclipse for C++.
2016-05-14 6:08 GMT-03:00 Wim Jongman <wim.jongman@xxxxxxxxx>:
LMAO(BW)
On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 12:20 AM, Jan Baeyens < <jan@xxxxxxxxxx>
jan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ROFL
Yes sir
