[Grok-dev] Re: on the name "Grok"
Philipp von Weitershausen
philipp at weitershausen.de
Mon Apr 28 11:57:10 EDT 2008
After sending my reply to Martijn's post, I found that it may be easier
if I didn't respond in "diff form", but instead stated how I think the
Grok name should be handled:
Grok is a web framework. It happens to be based on Zope 3 and some of
its own technology called Martian. This technology is reusable.
Much of Grok is split up in various grokcore.* packages (this is science
fiction so far) which are also reusable. The grokcore.* packages make up
a subset of Grok.
If you're reusing Grok's technology or a subset of its packages (and we
encourage you to do so!), you should not call this thing Grok. Call it
something else, give it an actually purposeful name (e.g. plone.easyapi
or whatever).
If you're building an extension for Grok (the web framework), then the
association with Grok is clear and you should feel encouraged to call it
megrok.something.
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