OSS Name Collisions
Comments focus on open source projects with names conflicting with existing tools, languages, or other projects, urging developers to choose unique names to avoid confusion and improve discoverability.
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I'm curious about how the project name was chosen considering there are existing tools with the same name.
Picking a project name that doesn't clash with something that already exists.
Did you Google the name first? This already conflicts with about 4 different open source projects, a container engine and a programming language
You might want to consider changing the name. It's not great practice to use the name of someone else's open source thing to name yours. It's fine in the tagline.
Maybe the person who published this link just wanted to remember/show, that the name was already taken by another project (the name is almost the same) and that the programmers should consider changing it.
It looks like there few other projects with the same name.
The name collisions for opensource projects stopped mattering a long time ago
Is the naming getting out of hand for these projects?
Intentions are good here , but the name is highly similar and so if you want to promote the project it seems fitting to rename for the sake of gaining more trust from new users. It is annoying though that the open-source well-intentioned project has to make the change tho.
Was thinking the same. Might be worth looking into renaming the project, to prevent situations like that for both maintainers and users.