The names Pcodec and Pco were chosen for these reasons:
- "Pico" suggests that it makes very small things.
- Pco is reminiscent of qco, its predecessor.
- Pco is reminiscent of PancakeDB (Pancake COmpressed). Though PancakeDB is now history, it had a good name.
- Pcodec is short, provides some semantic meaning, and should be easy to search for.
The names are used for these purposes:
- pco => the data format, nickname for the compression algorithm (also: Rust library)
- pco_cli => the binary crate name
- pcodec => the repo, the compression algorithm (also: CLI, Python library)