solrb renaming

It has been discussed in the past and even more today in the
 
#code4lib chat room that we ought to rename the solrb
package so that  
things start aesthetically pleasing:

	gem install solrb

apparently doesn't strike a chord with everyone.  I'm not
tied to  
solrb.  The original intention of that name was
"sol.rb" to spin off  
of the Spanish spelling of sun.   And I think naming the gem
"sol.rb"  
literally is a bad idea for syntactic reasons in that it'll
likely  
trip something up along the way (are there gems with dots in
their  
names out there now?).

So, here are some ideas tossed out for renaming
consideration:

	solr-ruby
	ruby-solr
	solr-client
	solr
	
My $0.02: "gem install solr" implies installing
Solr itself which we  
currently are not going to do.  "solr-ruby" or
"ruby-solr" are more  
suitable to me.  I don't personally mind "solrb",
but I can see how  
it isn't all that pleasing to others.

Thoughts?

	Erik

On 2/15/07, Erik Hatcher <erikehatchersolutions.com>
wrote:
>         solr-ruby
>         solr-client

Either of those seems reasonable. I'm kind of pulling
towards
solr-client since -ruby is mostly used for bindings, it
seems.

-- 
Coda Hale
http://blog.codahale.com

+1 for solr-ruby

Though solr-ruby-client would be more correct it is also too
verbose.

gem install solr-ruby feels appropriate.

-mel


On 2/15/07, Coda Hale <coda.halegmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/15/07, Erik Hatcher <erikehatchersolutions.com>
wrote:
> >         solr-ruby
> >         solr-client
>
> Either of those seems reasonable. I'm kind of pulling
towards
> solr-client since -ruby is mostly used for bindings, it
seems.
>
> --
> Coda Hale
> http://blog.codahale.com

>

On Feb 15, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Coda Hale wrote:

> On 2/15/07, Erik Hatcher <erikehatchersolutions.com>
wrote:
>>         solr-ruby
>>         solr-client
>
> Either of those seems reasonable. I'm kind of pulling
towards
> solr-client since -ruby is mostly used for bindings, it
seems.

Isnt' solrb a binding to Solr?

	erik

On Feb 15, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Erik Hatcher wrote:

> solr-ruby

solruby?

Marvin Humphrey
Rectangular Research
http://www.rectangular.co
m/

On 2/15/07, Marvin Humphrey <marvinrectangular.com> wrote:
> solruby?

When I first saw "solrb", my brain saw
"solr-b" and it made me wonder
what the "b" stood for 

solruby doesn't have that problem, so either
"solruby" or "solr-ruby"
sound fine to me.

-Yonik

On Feb 15, 2007, at 2:46 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote:
> solruby doesn't have that problem, so either
"solruby" or "solr-ruby"
> sound fine to me.

I like solr-ruby. It would follow the pattern of some other
gems on  
rubyforge:

   gem list -r | grep '-ruby'

//Ed

On 2/15/07, Edward Summers <ehspobox.com> wrote:

> I like solr-ruby. It would follow the pattern of some
other gems on
> rubyforge:
>
>    gem list -r | grep '-ruby'

Agreed and the ruby community is nothing if fans of
convention.

-Ross.

On 2/15/07, Erik Hatcher <erikehatchersolutions.com>
wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Coda Hale wrote:
> > On 2/15/07, Erik Hatcher <erikehatchersolutions.com> wrote:
> >>         solr-ruby
> >>         solr-client
> >
> > Either of those seems reasonable. I'm kind of
pulling towards
> > solr-client since -ruby is mostly used for
bindings, it seems.
>
> Isnt' solrb a binding to Solr?

If Solr was a local library which needed to be wrapped in a
friendly
Ruby layer, yes. As it is, it's a client to an external
service. 
cf. libxml-ruby vs. memcache-client.

Not like there's a huge orthodoxy on this subject, though.

-- 
Coda Hale
http://blog.codahale.com

On Feb 15, 2007, at 2:46 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote:

> On 2/15/07, Marvin Humphrey <marvinrectangular.com> wrote:
>> solruby?
>
> When I first saw "solrb", my brain saw
"solr-b" and it made me wonder
> what the "b" stood for 

If you're used to talking to others about Ruby, you end up
saying  
"blah blah blah dot R.B." a lot.  Sol - R.B. is
how I pronounce it,  
so it sounds rubyish as least 

> solruby doesn't have that problem, so either
"solruby" or "solr-ruby"
> sound fine to me.

Looks like solr-ruby will take the cake.

solruby still gets into that overlapping "r" usage
and seems funky.

	Erik