From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-06-14T22:02:31+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Non-standard library project

On Monday, June 14, 2004, 10:42:15 PM, Curt wrote:

>> The main thing for now is the name.  That enables the creation of the
>> mailing list, on which people can express interest.
>>
>> I think 'nonstdlib' is a good name.  Anyone got other ideas?

> I'm not sure how much bandwidth I have left (at least for the remainder of
> the summer), but I am definitely interested in participating at some level.

Cool.  As far as "participating at some level" goes, simply lurking on
the mailing list and throwing in occasional suggestions is a good level of
participation.

For any "package" that could be implemented, there are obviously
different ways to name methods, present APIs, etc.  So airing
different points of view would be a great help.

I certainly don't intend it to be a high-intensity project that takes
up lots of people's time.  Backward-incompatibilities would be
strenuously avoided, which means a slow, considered pace is likely.

> Here are some project-name ideas (I tend to prefer short, and easy to type):

>   NSL
>   NSLIB

I guess this seems reasonable as an example:

  require 'nslib/packer'

Gavin