> > Well, before we start announcing we should probably actually > decide on a final name for the program... Good thinking. > > Hedgehog > > Why? What the heck are you talking about, Brad? :) > > Well, the hedgehog family of proteins are a really important set > of molecules for controlling development in flies and mammalian > systems. They are signal transduction proteins that pass > developmental information from cell to cell and are responsible for > proper formation of patterning in developing embryos (so they help > detemine what if your back and front and right and left sides). > So I thought this was analagous to vsh/loci/gms/overflow in the > following way: > > Biology Our program > -------- ---------- > cell-cell communication => program-to-program communication > proper embryo development => proper workflow development > > So Hedgehog is a protein that coordinates cells to develop in a good > way, and vsh is a program that coordinates programs and libraries to > flow together in a good way. > > Whadda you all think? The added advantages are that it has a easy > acronym (hh) and that we can put pictures of hedgehogs on our site > without people taking us away to the mental hospital :-) At last! Hedgehog sounds ok, but aint there some other project around that's already using this name? bye, jarl -- byob, v: Believing Your Own Bull