[development] Naming the CVS abstraction module
Victor Kane
victorkane at gmail.com
Sat Jun 9 14:37:07 UTC 2007
I agree with versioncontrolapi or versioncontrol.
As a short alternative for everyone's consideration:
Repository API Module - repoapi.module
Victor
On 6/9/07, Stefan Nagtegaal <development at robuustdesign.nl> wrote:
>
> Op 9-jun-2007, om 16:22 heeft Doug Green het volgende geschreven:
>
> > I admit I'm not the best module namer in this community, but I
> > think I've
> > learned a few things from you all. Drupal tries very hard to use
> > descriptive names. A big -1 for VC, VCAPI, RC, RCAPI, etc. I like
> > versioncontrol.module or even better versioncontrolapi.
> >
> > Try avoiding unnecessary underscores in the name, because these
> > lead to
> > potential confusion with hooks.
>
> I have tp agree on versioncontrol.module.
> A descriptive name for a module is an absolute requirement when we
> talk about usability.
>
> Have a look at the support requests on drupal.org how much people
> doesn't grasp that the path.module is for the URL aliasing of nodes,
> because of it's poorly choosen name (this is still a todo on my list,
> to have that renamed to something more descriptive).
>
> So, imo better some larger modulename which is more descriptive, than
> s short makes-no-sense module name.
>
>
>
> Stefan
>
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