[RFC] kbfiles: an extension to track binary files with less wasted bandwidth

Angel Ezquerra angel.ezquerra at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 04:25:04 CDT 2011


On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
> On 2011-07-26 21:42, Na'Tosha Bard wrote:
> Honestly, I don't really care that much about the name of the extension
> itself, as long as we don't get into troubles by using registered
> trademarks. So, if we can avoid the word "Kiln", I'm perfectly fine.
>
> Using the name "kbfiles" seems safe to me (regarding trademarks) and I
> have no qualms about it having significant contributions by "the Kiln
> folks", or its provenance in general. IIUC, the initial work was done by
> Greg anyway.

I personally like Matt's name proposal. "largefiles" is very
descriptive of what the extension does. As others said, "kbfiles"
could be confusing for users, since "kb" refers to kilobyte or
kilobit...
Obviously the FogCreek guys should have a final say, since its their
extension after all...

Angel


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