<div dir="ltr">I don't like the name CBAN, for a number of reasons.<div><br></div><div>The are a number of C?AN's out there. I believe that CTAN was the first one (TeX), and then CPAN (Perl), CRAN (R), and CEAN (Erlang) followed. The architecture of CPAN was also ported for CCAN (C) and JSAN (Javascript).</div><div><br></div><div>Because these all share a family tree, much of the nomenclature is the same. Terms such as "packages," "modules," and "distributions" mean something specific in these cases, and those don't map well to Bro terminology. The other consistency is that most C?AN's don't actually have a command line client - Perl seems to be the notable exception, and its command line client is awful.</div><div><br></div><div>I think one of the main reasons people like CBAN is because they assume people will liken it to CPAN and immediately understand what it does. That might be the case for people who have Perl experience (although I'll argue that the number of those people is declining), but users with CTAN, CRAN, or CCAN experience will come in with completely different assumptions. Even people who do liken it to CPAN will need to reframe their assumptions, since the similarities don't extend very far.</div><div><br></div><div>So essentially, the impact of the name CBAN on people who are unfamiliar with it would be one of: 1) haven't heard of C?AN, don't understand what it does, 2) have heard of CPAN, assume a similar model and a similar (awful) command line client, or 3) have heard of a different C?AN, assume they have to download "packages" from the website manually, or 4) have heard of CPAN and some other C?AN, have no idea what to assume.</div><div><br></div><div>I also don't think the acronym CBAN represents the goals of the project:</div><div><br></div><div>Comprehensive - I don't think we can come close to claiming that. If the project was hunting for Bro scripts that others have shared and aggregating them somehow, then I think we could claim that it'd be comprehensive, but that seems like a weird claim when submissions are voluntary.</div><div>Bro - No arguments here. :-)</div><div>Archive - I'm not sure what this means in this context. Does it mean that plugins are distributed as archives? I'm not sure this makes sense to do. I think this is a holdover from the days before distributed VCS and GitHub, when you could download an archive of the packages. While I think we will offer that functionality, I don't think that is or should be a key feature.</div><div>Network - Again, not really sure what this means. To me, this implies a distributed model, which I don't think this project will offer -- at least not for a while.</div><div><br></div><div>Finally, from the strictly practical perspective:</div><div><br></div><div>* <a href="http://cban.org">cban.org</a> is taken</div><div>* <a href="http://github.com/cban">github.com/cban</a> is taken</div><div>* There seems to be a conflicting use of the acronym ("Comprehensive BEAST Archive Network"), though admittedly I'm not sure how widespread that usage is.<br></div><div><br></div><div> --Vlad</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Matthias Vallentin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vallentin@icir.org" target="_blank">vallentin@icir.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> By the way: Are we talking about renaming the whole project?<br>
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</span>I don't know :-). We need a command line client and a project name. When<br>
they are the same, it's certainly easier to remember.<br>
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My favorite name so far is also "brow." The eye brow of the Bro logo<br>
makes for a nice association. It didn't occur to me until you mentioned<br>
it, but it's also only edit distance one away from "brew," which helps<br>
in creating a package manager association.<br>
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