Some suggestions on the new name?
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
As pointed out by another commenter, they also ripped off the unicorn image seen on Github error pages, which further confuses the matter because Github obviously used that unicorn since they run the Unicorn web server, not whatever this HTTP library is. They would have been better off naming it something awful like "Hospice" or something.
apparently they got permission for use in open-source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5597431
Seems weird considering @dshaw uses that image across all of his web properties - https://twitter.com/dshaw, http://dshaw.com/ (top right), http://geekli.st/dshaw
Even in the event that he did give permission, doesn't seem like he thought it through that people would automatically associate it with him (or Github). I'm also not going to make assumptions about all of his talents, but he mentions nothing about illustration across any of his accounts. Did he actually make the original? Even if he commissioned it, it seems like it would be up to the artist to decide whether or not it is used for other purposes.
Just found this tweet:
Daniel Shaw @dshaw 20 Sep 11 @bkudria The angry unicorn comes from @github's old 500 page. It was originally left facing as you have it. Don't know the original source.
If I were the guys from this site, I'd really reconsider the name and the logo. Just too many crossed threads.
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#34Everyone, we are listening! We are throwing around new names but they all suck. Any ideas?
Centaur, Minotaur, Pegasus, Satyr, Gryphon...
If you want to go with Gryphon, here's a nice piece of open-source artwork: http://units.wesnoth.org/trunk/pics/core$images$portraits$mo...
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#35Nice to see a multi-language HTTP library, but I won't be stepping away from python-requests.org anytime soon.
100% agree on this one. Probably the only thing that immediately appealed to me for this project's python version was the integrated asynchronous requests capability.
With version v0.13.0+ of python-requests, async functionality was split out by the maintainer to https://github.com/kennethreitz/grequests (and it's a light wrapper over requests + gevent).
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#36Definitely needs a name change. This was an incredibly poor choice and makes me question whether I could ever feel comfortable using the software of an entire organization that is capable of making such a poor choice. Especially since they admit that they knew it would be confusing.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
As pointed out by another commenter, they also ripped off the unicorn image seen on Github error pages, which further confuses the matter because Github obviously used that unicorn since they run the Unicorn web server, not whatever this HTTP library is. They would have been better off naming it something awful like "Hospice" or something.
apparently they got permission for use in open-source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5597431
@mnicole I can't post directly to you, but it's actually from a clip-art set that he registered.
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#38The text isn't very readable.
It looks like part of the line "" rel="nofollow">http://maven.mashape.com/releases is being made into a lighter pink because of the "//" being marked as a single-line comment by the syntax highlighter.
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#39This is hilarious
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#40Naming aside, I think there is some value in a fluent, cross-language methodology for making HTTP requests. While each library adheres to the conventions of its specific language, the overall pattern for making requests looks the same across languages. If you are someone working with APIs in different languages, there is value in having this consistency.
I don't think anybody would say that that consistency would be useless. Now, about the name...