Fedora 12: Let's think of a better name for the project

Ryan McDougall sempuki1 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 13 14:59:03 UTC 2009


On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> "MinGW" has lots of baggage associated with it.  It also conflicts
> with the name of just one upstream project, whereas we are actually
> using many upstream projects and MinGW code is only a tiny fraction of
> the total.
>
> We also want to expand the project to cover Win64 and Darwin (if we
> can make that work).
>
> Let's think of a new name for Fedora 12.
>
> The rules:
>
> (1) We cannot use trademarked words like "Windows" in the project
> name.
>
> (2) The name must be unique, easy to pronounce, hard to confuse, and
> available to register as a domain name.
>
> (3) Don't want to interfere with or get confused with the other
> cross-compilers in Fedora, ie. the ones for embedded platforms.
>
> My vote is for:
>
> [Fedora] Consumer Cross-Compiler [Collection]
>  (abbreviated as CCC or CCCC)
>
> Add your suggestions or votes below ...
>
> Rich.

How about project stork? I brings you sweet bundles of love during the
night from some magical land ...

Cheers,



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