[haiku-development] Re: Name the package manager "Software Valet"
- From: Dee Sharpe <demetrioussharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 07:59:49 -0500
Managers were used in BeOS quite a bit. However, I'll concede that you may not
have run into the term unless you wrote device drivers. I'll refer you to the
term "busmanager", which is what you'd have to use for device drivers.
Specifically, you'd have a hard time writing a video driver without calling
into the pci busmanager.
Apollo Demetrious Sharpe
On Jun 4, 2013, at 7:51 AM, Dario Casalinuovo <b.vitruvio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Dee Sharpe <demetrioussharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> The name Software Valet isn't supposed to relate to or describe packages.
>> The purpose is to describe the actual app that brings you the packages. As
>> I've already stated, it's not an English word, so it had nothing to do with
>> the translation. Us English speakers had to learn what the word means, also,
>> so I see no reason why it should be difficult for anyone who speaks any
>> other language.
>
> Well i think re-reading the thread you can find various examples about how
> it's not really a clear naming for people speaking different languages. And i
> would also extend a bit on this restaurant metaphore, servers is not a word
> used for the first time by the BeOS creators, and no one (at least italians,
> i can say) will naturally think on such restaurants metaphore. Also i can't
> see where the managers word is used in BeOS.
>
> I'm not saying that it should be difficult to learn or speak that word, this
> word sounds in english as in italian, since it's a Latin derived word, and
> Italian just sounds as Latin, i'm saying that i don't see a reason to use a
> non descriptive word, or a word which will not be cool for different
> languages.
>
> Just as said in the previous mail i like how Haiku Depot sounds, and it looks
> like there's a general consensus on this name : )
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