On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 14:52 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: > Fabric Paul <[email protected]> writes: > > Hi Stefan - Thanks for the heads up. Fabric Engine has been going for > > about 2 years now. Registered company etc. I'll be sure to refer to it > > as Fabric Engine so there's no confusion. We were unaware there was a > > python tool called Fabric. > > There will still be confusion. The Fabric configuration tool is quite > well known in the python and sysadmin communities, so it will be the > first thing people will think of. If you weren't already aware of it, > I'd guess you're pretty far out of contact with Python's existing user > population, so there may be further sources of mismatch between your > product and what else is out there (I'm thinking of Stackless, PyPy, > etc.) Still, yoour product sounds pretty cool. >
Indeed. When I first saw the subject header I thought it was referring to the Python-based deployment tool. It's just going to confuse people. It's enough already that we have a bunch of stuff with "pi" and "py" in the name :| Does the OSS community *really* need another "Firebird" incident? -a -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
