Re: gEDA-user: Need cool first application for gdatabase

[Bill Cox <bill@viasic.com>]

John Griessen wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 19:40, Bill Cox wrote:
>  
> > I also am comming to dislike the name gdatabase.  Any ideas for 
> > something better?
> >    
> Freebase?   Just kidding...  How about:
>
> grains
> gatedata
> gatecache
> gatevault
>
> and not starting with g:
> logicpool
> logicpile
> logicnode
> modulecache
> modpile
> nodegen
> nodecache
> nodesave
> nodestore
> nodespec
> datatom
>
> The ones with node have a nice ring...  node is not overused in EDA, and
> it describes the point where branches divide, which is what all our
> little switches and gates and muxes do to datastreams.... branch them as
> in a result plus a carry, or converge them as in and or mult div sub. 
> All the little objects we save are at the most primitive level a node,
> or even at a higher abstraction level a block that takes in three 64 bit
> streams and outputs two of them is a kind of node also...
>
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One problem I have with gdatabase is that it's nine letters.  'nodegen' 
is better, I think.  How about:

gatedb
gateman (for gate manipulation)
nodedb
nodeman
nodegen (as you suggested)

Bill