[Xapian-devel] Eleven, twelve; dig and delve (name conflict)

[Chuck Aurora]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 07:48:44AM +0100, Richard Boulton wrote:
> Sorry not to be more helpful

No, Richard, you were helpful by being right. Even if you had loved 
our name as much as we did, troubles would ensue for your users and 
ours. What if someone asked us to change the name of dig? Even if we 
agreed, BIND's dig has been out there for 20 years.

We considered our options carefully. Some of the suggestions were 
very good. None were as perfect as "delve".

Introducing the second release candidate of the newest branch of the 
BIND9 family, BIND 9.10.0rc2, which includes a fabulously cool new 
Domain Entity Lookup and Validation command-line tool, which we NOW 
call "delv". This will be available for download shortly at:
	http://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.10.0rc2/

And at this point we have to award an Honorable Mention to Will 
Crawford of this mailing list. Will presented one of the best 
alternate name suggestions, complete with a relevant nursery rhyme 
reference. Thank you, Will.

And thank you all for the kind and cordial response to what might 
have been considered a bold request. Best wishes.
-- 
    Chuck Aurora : ISC Software Support : cba at isc.org
    Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.