Re: Renaming PEAR to pear

On 8/13/07, Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson <helgith@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Now for those that don't know what PEAR stands for, it's PHP Extension and > Application Repository... and well now if you think about it, we don't have > extensions anymore, PECL handles that and well application, have we ever > been keen on accepting those ? ;) In the past we've for fun on irc pondered > if we could create a new acronym and we found some pretty interesting things > but all in all, where's the gain ? People already know the project as pear > and not by the long name so we wouldn't really be throwing anything away. > Sounds like the same transition of "Personal Home Page" to "PHP"... once you've made a name for yourself, you don't have to continue to introduce yourself using your full name. This makes sense to me... -- CRB Let me introduce you to my very own DMCA-protected encryption key: BC 1B 64 4A 8D DE 49 E8 C3 7D CC EE 1A AD EE F5 (compliments of Freedom-to-Tinker http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1155)