From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-12-18T06:30:12+09:00
Subject: Re: rename thread.rb

On 17.12.2006 22:11, David Vallner wrote:
> Martin DeMello wrote:
>> I think thread.rb should be renamed 'threadutils.rb', with a period
>> where both exist and the former is deprecated - since Thread itself is
>> in core, and thread.rb merely introduces supplementary classes,
>> threadutils seems like an apter name.
>>
>> What do people think? I'll file an RCR if it sounds like a good idea.
> 
> This has been discussed before. I think generally the conclusion was
> that it would be potentially breaking code to solve something which
> isn't tangibly a problem, but feel free to search the archives for
> detail without my bias towards the above.

I second that.  It's not worth the effort.  The name is well established 
and changing it will break *a lot* of code as well as create headaches 
for package maintainers for all Linux distributions (and probably others 
as well).  It's a bad idea because the benefits are by far outweighed by 
the disadvantages.

Regards

	robert