"Oliver Jaxid" <mai### [at] finniqcom> wrote in message
news:3f50d076$1@news.povray.org...
> > Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> >>
> >> That said, many have suggested to rename this group many times, but
> >> over all
> >> these years nobody ever came up with a better and still _short_ name...
> >>
> >
> > another alternative will be the complete renaming of the actual
groupnames
> > something like:
> >
> > povray.programing => povray.binaries.developement
> > povray.programing.binaries => povray.binaries.developement.extensions
> >
> > and the group povray.general should be splitted in
> >
> > povray.common
> > povray.sdl
> > povray.sdl.developement

Follow-Up:

Are you a business manager IRL, Oliver? Only joking.  :-)

Maybe I'm not the only one thinking this could become too convoluted, and
yet, as I was going to shrug off this whole idea it occured to me that you
make a valid argument (suggestions). Especially since people have confused
this particular group for being merely scene file 'programming' discussions
in the past. And present too. :)

povray.src or povray.sourcecode or any such thing might help. But I doubt
it, simply because some people could think of those words as also being tied
to SDL. Might be why it was never changed from povray.programming to that
kind of name. Casual artisans together with computer programmers, and
everyone inbetween; all in one place, kind of thing.

Hmmmm, what about the names below for groups? Nothing more, nothing less. I,
too, am only one voice here but I do not want to see a large number of new
groups and subgroups if it means making it more complex to read messages.

povray.program-code
povray.program-code.binaries
povray.scene-description-language

Reason I spelled out SDL is that I don't know if the definition is really
common knowledge, so I feel that src and sdl might confuse people. Would
anyone mistake what program-code means? Maybe... Could it be worse than
"programming"? Possibly the same? No question, anyhow, that this is the unde
rlying issue. I don't think there's any elegant answer other than
povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions being required reading. Oh hey,
that's not abbreviated. Certainly nothing short about that name.

Bob H.

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