And The Winner Is, NuGet

The polls have closed and we now have a new name for our project, NuGet (pronounced “New Get” and not “Nugget” and not “Noojay” for you hoity-toity) which had the most votes by a large margin.

For those who missed it, the following posts will get you up to speed on the name change:

Over the next couple of days we’ll start transitioning the project over to the new name. We’ll try to minimize the impact of the change and make sure existing links to the CodePlex project redirect to the new URL. If you have a local clone of the repository with work in progress when we rename the project, don’t worry. All you have to do is push your changes to the new URL for your fork rather than the old one.

Thanks for your participation and support! I’m glad to have this behind us so we can continue to focus on delivering a great product. I’ve even thought of a tagline we can use until one of you come up with a much better one. Winking smile

NuGet: A new way to get libraries.

OR NuGet The caramel goodness of open source in your projects.

What others have said

Requesting Gravatar... Hugo Freitas Oct 29, 2010 2:18 PM
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Amazing!
Requesting Gravatar... iLude Oct 29, 2010 2:20 PM
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Great Name! Easy to remember. Simple. Meaningful. I like it!
Requesting Gravatar... eric Oct 29, 2010 3:10 PM
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As in nougat?
Requesting Gravatar... Ramses Matabadal Oct 29, 2010 8:19 PM
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Well done Haacked! Time to update my own posts I guess. ;-)
Requesting Gravatar... Nick Oct 29, 2010 9:06 PM
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April fools is a bit late this year. At least I have a sense of humour when those Ruby guys start laughing at us.
Requesting Gravatar... gliljas Oct 29, 2010 9:07 PM
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I'm glad and somewhat proud my suggestion was chosen, although I certainly can't take much credit for it. It was the Hanselman and Haack effect that did it!

I'm warming up to the Nougat pronounciation also. It's sweet, just as the tool itself and the community project that surrounds it!

Requesting Gravatar... Eddie Groves Oct 30, 2010 5:04 AM
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The end to a weird episode in .NET land - but the tool is great.
Requesting Gravatar... Robz Oct 30, 2010 6:55 AM
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Happy happy, joy joy!
Requesting Gravatar... Bob Oct 30, 2010 8:02 AM
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I still prefer Microsoft Open, but NuGet it is....
Requesting Gravatar... Bryan Watts Oct 31, 2010 4:43 AM
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Pascal-cased names whose components aren't identifiers have always read oddly to me. Now one is entrenched in my everyday world. McCarthy and NuGet FTW!
Requesting Gravatar... Neno Oct 31, 2010 7:58 PM
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Very good ,simple the best.
Requesting Gravatar... Justin Nov 01, 2010 4:37 AM
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Dangit, I voted for Nuujhey!
Requesting Gravatar... Adam Nov 02, 2010 5:40 PM
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If you have a dependency on food, NuGet automatically gets popcorn chicken. The open sauce community are celebrating!

Apprently KFC framework does not replace the M and the V in MVC.
Requesting Gravatar... Koistya `Navin Nov 08, 2010 7:19 PM
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Perhaps this has been already discussed before, but.. I missed it. Why "Nu"? What it stands for?
Requesting Gravatar... Koistya `Navin Nov 09, 2010 4:20 AM
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NuGet allows you to update individual packages of the project. I am going to create similar update tool which would allow to update the whole solution at one go. Anyone is willing to participate?

http://update.codeplex.com/
Requesting Gravatar... Polity Nov 10, 2010 5:30 PM
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Just to be blond here. Why not just call it 'packet manager' or something and skip all the confusion. 1 of the major complaints i have against java is that for many different conponents, differents totally unrelated names are used.
Requesting Gravatar... Tugberk Nov 18, 2010 11:15 PM
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nice job ! NuGet is so much helpful. thanks !
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