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Subject: Re: Supersonic block has landed (Power Trio tutorial/example app)
From: David Crossley <crossley@apache.org>
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Date: 10 May 2004 13:59:08 +1000
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Upayavira wrote:
> ...My immediate 
> response is 'why the name supersonic'. It obfuscates the contents of the 
> block. Why not just have a tutorial block, or a tutorials block if there 
> are more than one in there? That way it is completely obvious to someone 
> looking at Cocoon what is in there, and they'll be off coding, without 
> any additional help from us. But with this name, it just becomes one 
> amongst many unclear names: fop, deli, cron, batik, axis, slide, slop, 
> stx, velocity, etc, etc, etc.

I think that it should be called the "tour" block, yet still
have the familiar name of "Supersonic Tour".

IIRC we decided that we should use functional names for the
actual blocks. That is why we changed the "woody" name and why
the new kernel did not get a fanciful name.

--David