[bind10-dev] bikeshed alert: bind10 or boss or bob

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:49:57 +0100,
Michal 'vorner' Vaner <michal.vaner at nic.cz> wrote:

> I'm against b10-named. What if someone uses it for other purposes than DNS?
> 
> I think b10-core would be confusing (because we have other core components too).
> And I don't know if -init isn't misleading, I'd expect something that is -init
> to start up the thing and terminate itself. But that thing also shuts down
> things. From the list, I like the -main most.
> 
> But I'd be OK with keeping Boss. And I kind of like the fact that the executable
> is called „bind10“. After all, when I want to start it up, I want to start the
> whole bind10, not just the boss.

In that sense one possibility might be to add to bindctl the ability
of starting the system:

# bindctl start
(which only works on a local machine, doesn't start an interactive
session, but invokes the boss/init/main/whatever process and exits)

just like apachectl or postfix(1).

Anyway, as is often the case for bikeshed matters,
opinions/preferences seem to matter, and naming can actually be an
important topic it won't be very productive to spend too much time on
this topic.  So, at this point, I suggest leaving it to our manager
and implementing what he chooses.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.