Package naming

[frankdejonge]

I can see this being a helpful tool for lots of developers, but there's also grunt.js, which is super popular and dominates the name "grunt". I don't really see why the package is not named differently. Even the gruntfile is the same name, so I doubt this is a coincidence, right?

My two cents would be to rename the package and respect the other tool's namespace, even if it is from another language.

[toopay]

I am aware of that, but here some (ironic) facts :

• I started writing this library 11 months ago
• The first release of Grunt.js was 6 months ago

So the name conflict was really a coincidence, believe it or not :)

I already used this library before i publish it as a composer package recently, that means i had Gruntfile files scattered across several (old) projects, so changing all of this references could be a lil bit pain for me.

But sure i noticed name conflict could be confusing for some people. Maybe we could rename this. Lets see if other people bothered by these issue, but honestly i didn't.

[frankdejonge]

Well, you can put me down for a +1 then. I use grunt.js so I'd be required to alias your tool anyway (for global usage). Not to nitpick, but to be precise, you're referencing a 0.4.0 tag, before that the tool was already widespread and used by many.

[nickcernis]

I agree that the name could be problematic. (It's a shame that you thought of it first – I hate it when that happens!)

If you're open to renaming it, perhaps "Shunt" would work? Or "SSHunt"? Both allude to the use of SSH and the idea of nudging files and commands across to a remote server.

[jonathanmarvens]

@toopay Grunt.js has been around since 2011, and I personally have been using it for more than a year now. A rename would be quite awesome.

[thomaswelton]

Yeah, took me a few reads to be 100% sure this wasn't Grunt.js related.
You even have the same Gruntfile naming convention. Spooky. And confusing.

[rjkip]

👍 Would improve discoverability for your project as searches from Grunt always lead to the JS tool. Would prevent confusion regarding the Gruntfile and Gruntfile.js. Shunt sounds good, but anything else than Grunt is okay. :)

[toopay]

@ALL Expect package re-name next week. cc @philsturgeon

[frankdejonge]

👍

[jonathanmarvens]

👍 .

[philsturgeon]

Awesome

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[toopay]

New stable release now using Shunt as namespace. Thanks @nickcernis for the suggested name.

@philsturgeon you may need to update the grunt package info within php-loep front-page.

[frankdejonge]

@toopay updated 30dc4c428fc8bab27ef2f72291ac94ddf94ec8d5

[toopay]

@FrenkyNet thanks man.