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Name collision

Open nikolay opened this issue 9 years ago • 6 comments

I'm working on a project called anyenv, which is in the same space, but different. I registered domains, etc. Why did you change from everyenv to anyenv?

nikolay avatar May 21 '15 09:05 nikolay

There seems to be another project, kinda similar to yours, under the same brand: https://github.com/riywo/anyenv

nikolay avatar May 21 '15 09:05 nikolay

I'm not terribly attached to my name, but I don't have much better ideas. Since we're not talking about registered trademarks or "brands" necessarily, I think it's OK that some projects share a name.

Thanks for bringing @riywo's work to my attention. I was trying to compile a list of rbenv-inspired projects last night and didn't know that someone already has a comprehensive list and wrote tool to manage them all. (A manager for version managers? So meta!) :clap:

As a matter of fact, I planned to stir this project in the direction that aforementioned anyenv already took— consolidating all version managers' ROOT directories under a shared location, and setting up all of their shims paths in one init call instead of a separate shell configuration for every *env tool.

mislav avatar May 21 '15 13:05 mislav

Interesting! I wrote my anyenv two years ago.

Here is github.com, where you can use any name space under your account. For example, there are many phpenv repositories. So, I think we can keep our own "anyenv" project on github.com and that could be a normal case.

The name space will be conflicted in other services such as DNS, rubygems, etc. Then, we or some other guys should discuss about the name at the service.

riywo avatar May 21 '15 14:05 riywo

Thanks @riywo. I've looked at your code and I've found that you've implemented the shared root for all the version managers in a similar manner that I have planned to as well. I may draw some inspiration from your code later.

mislav avatar May 21 '15 16:05 mislav

@mislav did you ever compile a list of rbenv-inspired projects somewhere?

jasonkarns avatar Nov 15 '16 21:11 jasonkarns

@jasonkarns yes https://gist.github.com/mislav/116ba3305b6a2974980f

mislav avatar Nov 16 '16 19:11 mislav