[Mulgara-dev] ITQL

[Paul Gearon]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 7:35 AM, David Wood <dwood at softwarememetics.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 13, 2008, at 4:10 AM, Edwin Shin wrote:
>> On 07/13/2008 06:38 AM, Life is hard, and then you die is rumored to
>> have said:
>>
>>> org.mulgara.server.client ?
>>
>> god please no =)
>
> Agreed!

Yes, this did make me laugh.

Actually, Alex's suggestion got me on a new line of thought. It's a
package that isn't to much about "clients" as it is about language and
protocol. The current name is "itql" and I want to squeeze "sparql" in
with it. The main issue I have with "lang" is that the name seems to
emphasize the voacabulary/syntax aspect, and ignore the protocol. I
guess that's why SPARQL has the name that it does.

OTOH, langProtocol (and variants) seem unwieldy (and subpackages with
"lang" and "protocol" in the path will necessitate code refactoring
that I don't want to consider). So I've started thinking of just using
"ql" as this is the common element of both "itql" and "sparql". I
admit that it's obtuse, but at least it's short.  :-)

Whichever way I go, it won't be for a few days, since we need to
settle the beta release down into 2.0.0.

Paul