[Haskell-cafe] haskell-ide repository name

[Alan & Kim Zimmerman]

Ok the repository and IRC channel have both been changed to
haskell-ide-engine.

The timing is driven by wanting to get an accurate HCAR entry for the
project.

Regards
  Alan


On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Alan & Kim Zimmerman <alan.zimm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This post generated some discussion on the mailing list(s) [1],[2] and on
> reddit [3].
>
> The straw poll [4] garnered (as of time of writing this mail) 138 votes,
> broken down as
>
> ghc-ide-engine   56 votes 41%
> ghc-ide-service   43 votes 31%
> haskides             19 votes 14%
> ghc-ide-daemon 16 votes 12%
> something else     4 votes  3%
>
> So it seems -ide-engine is the favourite
>
> In a bait-and-switch operation, I think it makes sense to keep the current
> "haskell-ide" prefix, and so rename it to
>
>    haskell-ide-engine
>
> This has the advantages of
>
>   a) The prefix is the same, so continuity is slightly better
>
>   b) It does not mentally shut out any tooling constructed using other
> compilers/techniques, such as haskell-src-exts
>
> If anyone feels strongly that this is wrong, please let me know.
>
> Regards
>   Alan
>
>
> [1]
> https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2015-October/121965.html
> [2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/haskell-ide/hI3MzXbwqTo
> [3]
> https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/3qh19i/rename_haskellide_project/
> [4] http://strawpoll.me/5842105/r
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:06 PM, Alan & Kim Zimmerman <
> alan.zimm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> At the moment the repository/project is called haskell-ide
>>
>> This leads to the impression that it is an IDE.
>>
>> It is actually a backend/server to provide services for an IDE
>>
>> We are considering changing the name.
>>
>> The options are
>>
>>   haskides / ghc-ide-daemon / ghc-ide-service / ghc-ide-engine
>>
>> Please cast your vote at http://strawpoll.me/5842105
>>
>> Thanks
>>   Alan
>>
>
>
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