Re: Renaming PEAR to pear

On Mon Aug 13, 2007 at 09:3529PM +0000, Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson wrote: > Now what I mean by renaming PEAR to pear is that we'd be dropping the > acronym that PEAR stands for today and simply name the project pear, with no > extra meaning what so ever. -1. Several reasons: 1) People are confused about all sorts of things in PEAR already. Let's not confuse them more. 2) We are living under the PHP umbrella where stuff is called PHP, PECL, and SPL. And not php, pecl, and spl. 3) Even if we drop the acronym, what is so utterly wrong about keeping our project's name in uppercase letters? If SAP decided to call itself sap tomorrow, everyone would call them nuts. Why? Because there is no single reason why this makes sense. 4) This is entirely personal taste, but I very much prefer the typography "PEAR" over "pear" for aesthetical reasons. 5) On top of the reason I listed before, I'm actually wondering what your reasons are for renaming PEAR? You don't mention a single on in your mail. Remember that saying about never touching a running system? This not only applies to tech, but to corporate identity, too. - Martin