[plt-dev] renaming programs in the distribution

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> Similar to the way that `rico docs' serves the role of `plt-help', we
>> could have `rico games' replace `plt-games'.
>>
>> For GUI launchers for docs and games under Windows and Mac OS X, I
>> suggest `Rico Docs' and `Rico Games'. It's ok to have spaces in GUI-app
>> names, and then the documentation can refer to `rico docs' and `rico
>> games' commands (i.e., they work whether someone tries to use them via
>> a command line or by clicking on a GUI app).
>
> I thought "rico" was just our administrative script name.  Why are we
> naming applications after it?  If we are "PLT" and our software is
> "Racket", those should be the names in our application titles.
>
>> Otherwise, I think we should keep `planet', `setup-plt', and
>> `MrEd.app'/`MrEd.exe' for a while. Also, although I think we should
>> keep `plt-web-server' for a while, maybe we should move to `rico
>> web-server'.
>
> I think "rico games" and "rico web-server" are odd.  I would expect
> "rico" to include all our essential distribution management tasks
> (compilation, documentation, package installation), but not games or
> web servers.  Those seem like separate applications to me.  Or are we
> opposed to distributing multiple executables?

I like this rationale.

Robby