From: Tyler Zesiger <mailing-lists@...>
Date: 2004-06-15T00:59:17+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Non-standard library project

I have a radical idea: Why don't we call it something that makes sense, 
like "nonstandardlib", or "extralib". I thought "addlib" was catchy. 
Let's avoid abbreviating it so badly that I can't tell what it is when I 
see it.

Hynek Schlawack wrote:

> * Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>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.
> 
> 
> I'd love to help too. I'm lacking creativity to start an own module just
> now but would definitly like to help ruby on the way to RAA > CPAN. ;)
> 
> 
>>>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'
> 
> 
> Hm, doesn't it sound a bit too much like "libnsl"? Might be confusing
> under unix. I'd suggest rather "nstdlib" or alike.
> 
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