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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!
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particle?
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Capsule sounds like a good name, too. Linux contained within a CD :-p
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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!
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Personally, I like pods.
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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'?
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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.
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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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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!
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Packages?
(Personally I find nothing at all wrong with "modules", IMHO that's the least stupid-sounding choice... But have it your way. )
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packages wouldn't be good just for confusion with an actual package from Arch, and not Archie.
I'm all ready confused enough.
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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.
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Archlettes.
That's a beauty!
(Although, I'd say it should be Archlets though.)
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Or how about clusters? When something breaks, the reference practically speaks for itself!
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stick with archie, and (begging on) give us a new release! (begging off)
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i say keep archie, archlive sounds cool to me though. as far as modules naming. ill leave that to the deep thinkers.
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OK, sticking with Archie - still holding out for that module name though!
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wizzamajiggers!
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Call them deficites.
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Call them deficites.
Too many negative connotations on _so_ many levels
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Call them Pussycats
Archie and the Pussy Cats !
Just Folded Space From Arrakis
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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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