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Community Naming

Just a quick follow-up to my last posts about naming NuPack. Looks like the community is not content to sit back and let the project be labelled with a lame name. I’ve seen a couple of community inspired names created as new issues in the CodePlex issue tracker.

However, NFetch has a huge lead, but the community chosen NRocks is a close second. The name I like the best so far is NuGet.

(vote for it here)

As before, voting still closes on Tuesday 10/26 at 11:59 PM PDT. If you feel strongly enough around a name, rally your friends to vote for one. Smile

What others have said

Requesting Gravatar... Ryan Oct 23, 2010 8:17 AM
# re: Community Naming
How about PackMan (Package Manager)? :)
Requesting Gravatar... Mike Oct 23, 2010 7:34 PM
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[sarcasm]NuGet, yeah because Nu was the good part of the name...[/sarcasm]
Requesting Gravatar... Muaz Khan Oct 23, 2010 7:48 PM
# re: Community Naming
NetTrack
Requesting Gravatar... Kev Oct 23, 2010 9:33 PM
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Oh jeez don't let the community name it. Have you seen all the daft open source project names these guys have come up with? Next they'll be wanting a mascot and we all know where that'll go....

Stand firm, there's nothing wrong with NuPack.
Requesting Gravatar... Erno Oct 24, 2010 1:32 AM
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NuGet as in "New Get" when all I can see is nugget and now have a craving for KFC :D
Requesting Gravatar... Martin Oct 24, 2010 11:03 AM
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NWrap
NPack
Requesting Gravatar... Martin Oct 24, 2010 11:04 AM
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Pack Manager (PackMan) is actually quite good ... :)
Requesting Gravatar... bennyb Oct 24, 2010 11:04 PM
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PackMan FTW
Requesting Gravatar... Gabriel Oct 25, 2010 5:14 AM
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Thank God The command is Add-Package/List-Package or we would have something like List-Nugget | Where-Object {$_.Kind -eq "Vegetarian"}
Sorry bout the lame Joke, but I don't think Nugget is a good name.
If we look into AptGet that stands for: Advanced Packaging Tool. We Can take an Idea that it stands for Packaging.
And This Packaging utility would need to be defined first. It looks like a Pluggable .Net Extensions Downloader for Solutions. Obviously thats not a name, but a definition, as Package Manager is too broad for what this does, this is focused for .net not Windows.
I Think NetGet is a better name.
Requesting Gravatar... William Oct 25, 2010 6:01 AM
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NuPack
Requesting Gravatar... Jason Q Oct 25, 2010 8:23 AM
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PackMan!! Clearly, PackMan! How do we vote for it?!
Requesting Gravatar... Adam Oct 25, 2010 7:12 PM
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I vote for PackMan!
Requesting Gravatar... Sajid H Oct 25, 2010 7:14 PM
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packman is genious!
Requesting Gravatar... Remi Online Oct 25, 2010 8:36 PM
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packman is great, i used to play all day when i was a kid.legend!
Requesting Gravatar... Pat Gannon Oct 26, 2010 6:32 AM
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Note that "Nugget" (similar name to NuGet) is already a project on codeplex: http://nugget.codeplex.com/

It's a WebSockets server that I actually used in a recent UG presentation I did for NBNUG. Although its relatively unknown now, it might not stay that way since there doesn't seem to be any other viable competitors on the .NET platform (and its fairly actively maintained).

Take care!
Requesting Gravatar... Jumping Jack Jackson Oct 26, 2010 3:52 PM
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I vote for Packman too
Requesting Gravatar... hilton smith Oct 27, 2010 3:26 PM
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i'm creating an issue on codeplex to rename the project to Ryans awesome genius suggestion. Please vote for it!
Requesting Gravatar... Joe Oct 28, 2010 9:58 PM
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PackMan? Freakin' awesome. Need to incorporate PowerPellets somehow. :)
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