Re: New PGXN Extension site

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 09:03 +0200, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> > David E. Wheeler wrote:
> > > On Jun 15, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> > >
> > >> I think this project is a great idea, and I think as a community we
> > >> ought to be behind it 100%.
> > >>
> > >> However, I do wonder what happened to the original name, which IIRC
> > >> was PGAN. That seems easier to pronounce, remember, ...
> > >
> > > I didn't care for it, personally. "Pee-Gan" sounds weird to my ear. I prefer "pee-gee-ex-en." But you can go for "pixin" or "pigskin" if you'd rather. ;-)
> > >
> > > My bike shed is chartreuse,
> >
> > heh I'm with Robert on that PGXN just sounds and speels weird - PGAN was
> > much easier ;)
>
> I actually like PGXN. PGXN is marketable. Yeah that may not be what
> -hackers are after but if I stand up in front of a Fortune 500 company
> and say, "We have PGXN" it sounds a heck of a lot better that PGAN.

I think the attraction of PGAN is that people have some hope of guessing
what it means (CPAN/PGAN), and because C and G look similar, there is
even more an association, e.g. swap C and P, change C to G, and viola.

The attraction of PGXN is that it looks like PGXS.

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