A store is a place where you buy things. In HaikuDepot, everything is available for free. You see this can’t work
If you want the whole history of names, the app to install and update packages in BeOS was called SoftwareValet. Which I don’t think is a much better name.
(take this post with some amount of humour )
Actually, and honoring the best Sci-Fi movie of all times ;), The Fifth Element (Le Cinquieme Element) by Luc Besson, as KDL (Kernel Debugging Land) is also the acronym for the main characters of that movie, Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) and Leeloo (Mila Jovovich), I think that the best name for HaikuDepot, not being HaikuDepot, would be:
Supergreen Software Bazaar
Supergreen, for obvious Fifth Elemental reasons, and Bazaar for the exoticness of Haiku. If Supergreen Software Bazaar launches with some Tar music, and we can get Microprocessor manufacturers to add some spices on top of the processors that release the spice aroma over certain workloads, could trigger that too when launching Supergreen Software Bazaar, so with the Tar music and the spices’ aroma, user would be transported to the Istanbul bazaars’ environment looking for Haiku software. And changing all .HPKG to .TAR would be even better, matching by name the Tar instrument too.
Just my 2 cents, I don’t understand the commotion on the naming “HaikuDepot” Seeing the history (and it has been said) BeDepot was one of the instances to download BeOS packages, there was BeBits also, but I’m OK with HaikuDepot …
Thanks @brunobastardi, though the post was more of a fun thing than serious. Seriously I wouldn’t dare to ask Blender devs to change the name to Threedeemaster, nor Wonderbrush to Paintorama, nor LibreOffice to BusinessDocLivre and so on… you get the point
Some humour sometimes is good to guarantee mental stability , not that I’m mentally unstable… am I?
Regards,
RR
PS: I do fully understand the reasoning behind @bitigchi’s proposal though. With XXXstore or StoreXXX everywhere it’s “hard” to do something different. Mate Desktop calls it Software Boutique, KDE calls it Discover. Actually, imho the name is less important, and the Quick Tour/Jump Start app (non-invasive) would solve any doubts newcomers might have regarding the software available and where to search for it.
I like Depot as a name because I use Haiku specifically to get away from the soulless commercial storefronts that modern applications have become, and return to when PCs were playful and packed with simple functionality. Depot evokes that feeling because it doesn’t bring to mind paying for products, but rather logistics, usability, industrial chic.
That’s circular logic “it was talked about” is hardly the same as “everyone agrees with me”
You may also notice the number of likes on extrowerks post, which outnumber the votes in the original poll, I’d say statistically you are wrong in your assesment.
Yeah, the whole reason this thread exists in the first place is because someone didn’t really like the name “HaikuDepot”.
Regarding the dual-naming of CLI vs GUI, many popular CLI tools have this sort of system, mainly because it is the GUI (usually an independently developed piece of software) interfacing with the CLI, which means that you can have different GUIs called different things interfacing with the same CLI tool. I’m not sure if that is how HaikuDepot and pkgman interact though, if that is the case, then that means it’s possible for other pkgman GUIs to be made too.
It is not, pkgman, package and HaikuDepot are all frontends for the same library, the package kit, but neither is a frontend for any other tool.
You can develop other GUI applications or commandline applications if you want (for example, a dependency visualizer/graphing tool could be usefull for porting, aswell as a tool to check a repos integrity (finding uninstallable packages))