Re: Re: Prepping for Ubuntu Lucid & Pushing PEAR2, Pyrus

On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 12:34 +0200, Martin Jansen wrote: > On 04.06.10 10:45, Ken Guest wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Martin Jansen <martin@divbyzero.net> wrote: > >> Is it Pear or PEAR now? Both spellings are used on the site, which is > >> BTW lovely. > > > > It's an abbreviation, so it should be PEAR (all-caps). > > Even if we don't consider PHP Extension and Application Repository to be > a correct description of the project anymore, we should in my opinion > stick to the current spelling because that is what people having been > using for years. Confusing them with a new spelling for no good reason > is pointless. > The change from PEAR to Pear was my initiative in the design, and for the reasons Helgi mentioned. As a bonus, Proper Words look nicer in text than ACRONYMS. That said, it's a relatively small design element and I don't mind much if we stick with the ACRONYM version. I tried to find examples of other projects that changed from an acronym to a word and could only find Gaim (now Pidgin). They changed mostly for legal reasons which do not apply to PEAR. I though this sort of change was more common in open-source projects, but I haven't been able to find evidence to back it up. Lastly, I'd like to keep the logo all lower-case because it looks good. It's a graphical element so I think we have the flexibility to change case here. Cheers, Mike