Archie re-brand/re-name?

dtw · 2006-08-04 08:45:35

I've been thinking about modularizing Archie, which has led me to a search for a better name than "modules". I did a thesaurus search for modules and it churned out a few words. I liked the look of element and atom. It'd be cool to call them elements but that's not really in keeping with the Archie name so I wondered about renaming Archie to Element or Elemental and calling the modules atoms.

Does anyone have any thoughts or opinions? These are just thoughts on my part; I'm not at all sold on a name change and I've not even discussed it with Ziggy!

hightower · 2006-08-04 09:23:18

hi,

I think Quarks sounds better

hightower

myst · 2006-08-04 09:31:02

particle?

postlogic · 2006-08-04 09:32:02

Capsule sounds like a good name, too. Linux contained within a CD :-p

arooaroo · 2006-08-04 09:41:58

Ah ha! This is something I can help with. I work for Pearson Longman, in the dictionaries dept. Longman owns Roget's Thesaurus, and so I have more words than you can shake a stick at.

Surely, if you want to emphasize that your system is make of components, in a modular fashion, whilst pertaining to a computing theme, you call it Bits!

pauldonnelly · 2006-08-04 09:51:52

Personally, I like pods.

tomk · 2006-08-04 10:34:33

I think losing the Archie name would be a mistake - unless the intention is to de-emphasise the relationship with Arch, but there are no good reasons for doing that, IMO.

For the modules, maybe 'factors' or 'segments'?

barebones · 2006-08-04 14:47:19

How about key stones, or keys as a name for the modules? It doesn't necessarily roll off the tongue, but it keeps with the theme.

soloport · 2006-08-04 15:08:40

tomk wrote:

I think losing the Archie name would be a mistake - unless the intention is to de-emphasise the relationship with Arch, but there are no good reasons for doing that, IMO.

Agreed.

How about: Components. Containers. Cans. Units. LEGOs. Blocks. Bricks. Bundles. Beakers. Viles. Pills. Packages. Packs. Pods. Layers. Libraries. Dumpsters. Archlettes. :shock: Archilles. :evil: Achipelagos 8) (a landform which consists of a chain or cluster of islands).

In fact, what's so wrong with just plain old 'modules'?
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dtw · 2006-08-04 15:12:10

It's just boring - I like pods though - they're self-contained. Seeds would be good too but that's to easily confused with torrenting!

Gullible Jones · 2006-08-04 15:44:16

Packages?

(Personally I find nothing at all wrong with "modules", IMHO that's the least stupid-sounding choice... But have it your way. )

codemac · 2006-08-04 20:30:12

packages wouldn't be good just for confusion with an actual package from Arch, and not Archie.

I'm all ready confused enough.

elasticdog · 2006-08-04 20:42:01

I think modules is just fine as well...it's intuitive already, and most everyone would know what it meant without giving it a second thought. I think sticking with Archie is also a good idea to maintain the relationship between it and Arch.

arooaroo · 2006-08-04 20:56:44

soloport wrote:

Archlettes.

That's a beauty!

(Although, I'd say it should be Archlets though.)

soloport · 2006-08-04 21:03:57

Or how about clusters? When something breaks, the reference practically speaks for itself!

scrawler · 2006-08-04 23:52:08

stick with archie, and (begging on) give us a new release! (begging off)

scarney · 2006-08-04 23:54:57

i say keep archie, archlive sounds cool to me though. as far as modules naming. ill leave that to the deep thinkers.

dtw · 2006-08-05 00:45:31

OK, sticking with Archie - still holding out for that module name though!

barebones · 2006-08-05 00:46:38

wizzamajiggers!

deficite · 2006-08-05 00:52:08

Call them deficites.

dtw · 2006-08-05 01:08:28

deficite wrote:

Call them deficites.

Too many negative connotations on _so_ many levels

Pick2 · 2006-08-05 01:44:23

Call them Pussycats
Archie and the Pussy Cats !

benplaut · 2006-08-05 03:36:09

James Bridget Jones the 3rd? (name of a petrified pufferfish on a shelf at my school)

Keep it at archie... it's a great name

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