[Twisted-Python] suggestions for naming to help us preserve a Twisted trademark

Duncan McGreggor duncan.mcgreggor at gmail.com
Fri May 30 20:14:50 EDT 2008


On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:03 PM,  <glyph at divmod.com> wrote:
>
> On 03:31 pm, phil at bubblehouse.org wrote:
>>
>> I have to say, personally, there's pretty much no way I would ever name a
>> project 'Twisty' anything ;-).
>
> OK, OK, I get it.  Everybody hates "Twisty" :).

Seriously. I groaned audibly upon hearing about it :-)

> I should have been more
> careful to separate the specific suggestion of "Twisty" (which was just
> something that popped into my head) in my original message from the need for
> a word like this.  I wasn't totally set on it.
>>
>> Of course, I understand this wouldn't be a requirement, but if this is to
>> be a useful marketing technique, whatever the prefix is needs to be obvious,
>> but also inconsequential. That's the thing that's great about the Java
>> convention, once you're familiar with it, you pretty much stop seeing the J.
>> Same with the tired but successful iSomething.
>
> You've convinced me.  I still think "Twi" sounds okay (better than "Twisty")
>  "Tx" (evocative of "TwistedmatriX", "Transmit", "Twisted multipleXed"?)
>  "T"?  I'd suggest "Tw" but I feel like it has to be pronounceable, and "Tw"
> forces the first letter of your project to be a vowel (whereas "Tx" could be
> pronounced "Tix").
>>
>> I think a one- or two-letter prefix is pretty much the best option

Man, I think you totally hit it on the nose with your "tx" suggestion:
tx.snmp, tx.storage. I maintain the Twisted-JSONRPC package, and I
will change the namespace from twisted.web.jsonrpc to tx.jsonrpc. Not
only does it have a cool sound, entails "TwistedmatriX", is associated
with "transmit", but it could also stand for "Twisted eXtensions" (in
the "add on" sense).

I think this one's a winner.

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