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As I said earlier, it wasn't my intention to name it after a weapon.

That being said, it's a three letter name. It's very unlikely NOT to run into naming conflicts here.

edge - taken by Microsoft

jpm - JPMorgan

ppm - taken by Perl package manager: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_package_manager

fpm - taken by Effing package management: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm

bpm - beats per minute

ayp - terrible to type, although taken by "Adequate Yearly Progress": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adequate_Yearly_Progress

nnm - What happens when it's no longer new?

Just in Germany for example there are a ton of companies called ISIS (just google "ISIS GmbH"). Being offended by a three letter shell command seems a bit over the top to me to be honest.

Edit: I won't respond to further comments on the naming issue. It wasn't my intention to name it after a weapon. As I said earlier, I will change the name as soon as anyone proposes a better one.

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Yeah, but when people do a google search for IED, what are they going to find?

I'd worry less about offending someone because they had to type it, and more about SEO. I'd stick with things that don't have pictures of gore and destruction on the first page of search results.

So, that's a really good reason to not.

Also, your response was shitty... You specifically state that you chose IED because it's "easy to type"... but when someone says "Hey, that's what we call bombs that insurgents use to kill people with", you reply "Yeah, but the alternative is an acronym used by JP Morgan... People getting offended by me naming something after a way to kill people are being over the top". If "IED" happened to actually mean something, fine, make a case... but it isn't actually easier to type than anything else... If you want that, name it ASD, which shouldn't have any conflicts, as the top google search result is Anchorage School District... and I couldn't find any conflicting package names.

I get it, people are constantly picking on things and suggesting that they need to be more PC... but in this case, there is absolutely NO reason for you to stick with the name IED... and several reasons to change it (SEO, offensiveness, typability).

Also, good news for german companies... The news has started using different acronyms for ISIS... I've seen IS and ISIL in regards to the paris bombings, as they're more true to the literal translation.

Another Stupid Deployment (ASD)... just suggesting a corresponding name to work with.

> That being said, it's a three letter name. It's very unlikely NOT to run into naming conflicts here.

It isn't critical to avoid all possible naming conflicts, only to avoid 1) other command-line tools and 2) names in poor taste. Thus, only the conflicts with other package managers really matter.

I wouldn't worry about naming conflicts per se, just unfortunate or misleading ones (e.g. company names).

I think "bpm" is a clever name for a faster npm client because "beats per minute" is a speed measurement and thus associated with something going really fast.

IED on the other hand has the association of people dying or being crippled by terrorists.

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