[bind10-dev] what's b10-d2?

[Shane Kerr]

Tom,

On Wed, 22 May 2013 06:51:43 -0400
Thomas Markwalder <tmark at isc.org> wrote:

> The code name we are workig with is "D2".  One "D" for DHCP and one
> "D" for DDNS. Ultimately, the module and its binary will probably be 
> deployed as "B10-DHCP-DDNS". The top level classes and source files 
> pertaining to this module use "D2" and "d2_" in their names 
> respectively.  D2 was selected  for the less public face for
> simplicity and ease of communication. "Dhcp-Ddns" is cumbersome both
> in speech and on the keyboard. From a status standpoint, this module
> has a ways to go before its useful. What is there now is a very
> bare-bones skeleton which does little more than connect to BIND10.
> 
> IF there is consensus on the module being named B10-DHCP-DDNS, then I 
> can follow the pattern in use for b10-stats-httpd, where only those 
> files which must reflect the "module name" do.   I noticed that most
> of the source files for this module are abbreviated, for obvious
> reasons. I would like to reserve the right to postpone renaming until
> we are closer to release.  The "scope" of this change won't grow and
> while typing it occasionally may not be burdensome, doing so many
> times over, while its in development will be.

I think it's clearer to the admin with the longer name. I'm fine if we
keep the directory and name of the module b10-d2 indefinitely and I'm
also fine if we defer renaming for a bit. Probably sometime before the
next release (meaning the 1.2 release) we should rename it though....

Cheers,

--
Shane