[Dynamite] dynamite/telegraph name

[Guy Slater]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Ewan Birney wrote:

> 
> 
> (cc'ing guy in).
> 
> > Actually I think that would be too extreme. There are the obvious
> > recognition factors of course - a lot of people know the Dynamite name and
> > that includes a lot of people you've spent effort explaining HMMs to who
> > otherwise mightn't know.
> 
> Not sure - we can get the recognition by plugging my name shamelessly
> and pointing out that telegraph is the dynamite successor. I am still
> good for telegraph. Let's call it telegraph and drop the dynamite.
> 
> > 
> > More importantly than that, I'm hoping that you will be able to treat
> > this project as something enjoyable. How many lines of code you write is
> > not the issue, we all know that's a fake statistic & you've done far more
> > important stuff already by the brief amount of chat on the list.
> > 
> 
> Yeah - I want to write this code. My fingers are itching. 
> 
> 
> > We can bin the Dynamite name if you want, I don't think we should though,
> > I'm more concerned that you stay enthusiastic (not just for mercenary
> > reasons... it is really fun to share good work with good people & it's
> > hard to find collaborators like you & guy)
> 
> 
> ditto. this is the most enjoyable project on the horizon for me.
> 
> > 
> > I would encourage you to stick with it -- I think a lot of cool stuff will
> > come from it (the IDL & Wiki already have).
> > 
> > As far as I'm concerned it's been a Dynamite project from the start and
> > I'm sticking like glue to the DesignGoals we hammered out in Cafe Ristra
> > so I would be very happy keeping it that way.
> > 
> 
> I vote telegraph as the project name
> 
> guy to provide the tie-breaker.

(I'm going though my email backlog ...)

I reckon the telegraph name is good.

I don't think it's really a new dynamite release,
as pretty much everything will be rewritten,
but I guess the docs at least should reflect
that it is using many dynamite ideas.

Guy.
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