Rename package to something more unique?

[TomNicholas]

@yuvipanda pointed out that the name "cubed" is almost impossible to Google - there are so many other projects called cubed. (In our field "cubed" would also likely get confused with "datacube".)

In fact, "cubed" is not available on pypi (I used this package to check quickly).

Would you consider renaming the package to something more distinctive? The best time to do it would be before you have many users... :sweat_smile:

If you want ideas then you could perhaps get inspiration from the key feature of bounding the memory usage - e.g. a word that expresses boundedness, limits, predictability, or a concept from the memory-safety world.

[tomwhite]

In fact, "cubed" is not available on pypi (I used this package to check quickly).

cubed on PyPi is this project! 😄

Naming is hard! Finding a name that is Google-able generally means coming up with a unique made-up word. In the absence of that, people tend to Google for projects using modifiers, such as "cubed array python".

Having said that, I'm not averse to renaming it, but all the names I came up with were too general (like cubed), not on PyPi, or were just pretty awful (judged by my family).

[TomNicholas]

cubed on PyPi is this project! smile

d'oh :man_facepalming:

Finding a name that is Google-able generally means coming up with a unique made-up word.

That would be great. Or another option is a very obscure word in English, like "kubernetes".

"The name Kubernetes originates from Greek, meaning helmsman or pilot."

I was trying to see if there was a cool, snappy, unusual word for "bounded" or "finite" in some non-English language...

people tend to Google for projects using modifiers, such as "cubed array python"

Yes, but if I search "cubed array python" in an incognito tab (to not give google any clues) then I get 10.5 million results, and no sign of this repo! Perhaps that's just a consequence of pagerank though.