2009/1/15 David Hammond <dhammond@webdevout.net>:
Hi, I don't intend to cause a big fuss, but I have a concern about the name of your project.
I first became aware of your project yesterday when I ran a Google search for the word "pharo". This is the name I had chosen for my open source PHP framework project back in January of 2008. At the time, the Smalltalk-related Pharo project did not yet exist, and the Google search results yielded nothing at all similar or relevant to the project I wanted to start. I purchased pharo.org that month (with trac.pharo.org, svn.pharo.org, and apt-trunk.pharo.org currently in active use) and made a teaser post about the project on my blog: http://www.webdevout.net/tidings/2008/01/15/the-pyramids-werent-built-in-a-d...
My intention is to release the Pharo PHP framework under a BSD license and not profit directly from the project. I have no stakes in preserving the exclusiveness of the "Pharo" name aside from avoiding possible confusion. But I do believe that the name conflict is an issue of concern, since both of our projects are directly related to programming languages.
Hum, yes a bit annoying. Thank you David for your report. The name Pharo was selected at the end of april 2008/beginning of May 2008. Look here in this old archive : http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/sapphire-devl/2008-May/thread.html I think that the two Pharos are sufficiently distinct not to confuse them. Maybe we could rename our Pharo to "Pharo Smalltalk" and yours "Pharo PHP Web framework" ? BTW, you could use Seaside (http://seaside.st) to switch to Pharo Smalltalk in order to implement Pharo framework ;-) -- Serge Stinckwich IRD - UR 079 Geodes, MSI Team, Hanoi, Vietnam Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)] http://doesnotunderstand.org/