Looking for name suggestions

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Oct 29, 2013 at 11:28pm
So I've been spending a few hours of week to work on a really old project of mine. And it's getting closer and closer to actually being releasable.

As I thought about the release more and more... I realized my name for it sucks. So I'm making this thread in hopes of getting better name suggestions.



The project is a library for abstracting the filesystem in a way which makes reading/writing of archived (zipped) files transparent. I know there are lots of libraries out there which do this already... but the interface for all of the ones I've used have left me wanting. Plus it was fun.


The current project name is 'SFSL' -- a play on SFML, since it was originally intended to be an add-on support lib for SFML. But I've since decided against tying it to SFML directly... so not only does the name no longer fit... but it was stupid to begin with.


SO -- anyone have suggestions for better names? My requirements for acceptable names are pretty loose:

1) Name has to be easily google-able (ie: googling the name has to return little or no hits)
2) Nerdy is OK, as long as it's not over the top.
3) Nonsense words or misspellings of actual words are fine -- again as long as they're not over the top. "Rabblefrabble" is an example of being over the top.
4) Acronyms are fine.
5) Acronyms which spell out a word (or a misspelling of a word to make it googleable) are even better.
6) Bonus points for names that actually describe the lib -- but this is not strictly a requirement.


EDIT:

To clarify the misspellings... most misspellings are okay... but subbing 'z' for 's' or 'x' for 'ex' are unacceptable. I know that's really arbitrary but I hate things like "Bratz" and "Xtreme"
Last edited on Oct 29, 2013 at 11:48pm
Oct 29, 2013 at 11:43pm
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R&W

Read and Write
Oct 29, 2013 at 11:46pm
R&W has +9 million hits on google. The google-ability is really the biggest thing I care about.
Oct 29, 2013 at 11:47pm
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Aw.

How about "FSAL"

FileSystem Abstraction Layer.
Oct 29, 2013 at 11:55pm
Lovable Archive-Reading Binary Integration Engine

"Larbie" ?
Oct 29, 2013 at 11:57pm
CIYARA: CIYARA Is Yet Another Recursive Acronym.

LARBIE sounds nice, though I'm not so sure about the "lovable" portion. Think about how many snarky comments you might get if someone doesn't like it.

-Albatross
Oct 30, 2013 at 12:08am
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Best way to get trolls worked up I guess.
Oct 30, 2013 at 12:48am
Lovable just means able to be loved... it doesn't mean it has to be loved.
Oct 30, 2013 at 12:52am
Something simple like ArchLib?
Oct 30, 2013 at 1:01am
SZLib = Seamless Zip Library?

-Albatross
Oct 30, 2013 at 4:47am
FUnzipped
Oct 30, 2013 at 5:19am
Punzip, though I'm a fan of LARBIE.
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Oct 30, 2013 at 6:26am
Dischbag.

Now the serious suggestions that I have to actually think for...
Transparenzip
Oct 30, 2013 at 6:33am
HardDisch

or

ziplib -its taken :/

Archlib sounds decent, not to common on google.
Oct 30, 2013 at 6:33am
I kind of want to avoid "zip" because I don't want to be limited to just zip files. There might eventually be support for other archive formats.

'ArchLib' is alright, but kind of bland.
Last edited on Oct 30, 2013 at 6:34am
Oct 30, 2013 at 6:47am
what are some other names you have thought of?

on a side note, my girlfriends little brother spells "extreme" as "xstream"

oh what about "Filexstream"?
Oct 30, 2013 at 6:48am
I kind of want to avoid "zip" because I don't want to be limited to just zip files.

A name doesn't limit what your library supports, you do. Besides, why cater to users who don't even read the feature list before downloading?

Additionally, a lot of people know instantly that "zip" is about lossless data compression.

There might eventually be support for other archive formats.

Might? Go with an honest name, does it currently only support ZIP? Then name it so.
Oct 30, 2013 at 6:54am
libSAWRIB: LIBrary for Seamless Archive Writing and Reading Integration, and Bunnies.

-Albatross
Oct 30, 2013 at 7:10am
libSAWRIB

i don't know if its the RIB or the bunnies but that name makes me slightly hungry
Oct 30, 2013 at 1:18pm
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CrystalSquirrel
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