Renaming the project to Rocketry #41
Miksus
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Hi all!
I initially picked the name of the project solely as the word Red is underused in PyPI (all my major projects are Red something) and engine sounded something descriptive for the project. After some time I did discover there is another widely known product for the name. At first, I thought it did not bother me as this is totally different thing than that.
However, I have come to the realisation that maybe it's not best to have the same name to avoid confusion. The use case here is totally different and I'm not generating revenue out of this thus I don't think there are legal problems with the name.
And then I had the idea of renaming this to Rocketry which I think is a very fitting name. It fits to the theme of the docs and it has uniqueness in it. Moreover, my childhood passion has been rocket science and this project is my adulthood passion so to me this name is very meaningful. The project is like rocketry: the art of powering your apps.
I thought if I ever want to change the name I should do it relatively quickly as otherwise there will be much more friction if I waited. As the library has come to popularity this week I think there probably is not much production code yet running with this (except mine). I'm planning to do the renaming as soon as possible to avoid people getting used to the old name.
I already made the PyPI page that has the latest version (v2.0.1) with renamed imports etc. (seems I forgot to rename the README HTML properly though but don't mind that): https://pypi.org/project/rocketry/
I'll do the switch in a way that your old pipelines won't break. The past versions of Red Engine will stay in PyPI but the new ones will be under the new name. And I'll just rename this repository but will produce a mirror with the old name (which is frozen to old version and directs here) so old links work.
Sorry for the inconvenience and I hope you appreciate the new name. I let go of my childhood passion but I won't let go of this one.
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