Naming is Hard

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Naming is Hard, Let’s Go Shopping

There are only 2 hard problems in Computer Science. Naming things, cache invalidation and off-by-one errors. I’m always impressed with the passion of the open source community and nothing brings it out more than a naming exercise. In my last blog post, I posted about our need to rename NuPack. Needless to say, I got a bit of angrypassionate feedback. There have been a lot of questions that keep coming up over and over again and I thought I would try and address the most common questions here. Why not stay with...

We’re Renaming NuPack

UPDATE: The new name is NuGet The NuPack project is undergoing a rename and we need your help! For details, read the announcement about the rename on the Outercurve Foundation’s blog. What is the new name? We don’t know. You tell us! The NuPack project team brainstormed a set of names and narrowed down the list to four names. I’ve posted a set of names as issues in our NuPack CodePlex.com site and will ask you to vote for your favorite name among the lot. Vote for as many as you want, but realize that if you vote...