Name change to babel-minify

[hzoo]

Ok it's changed (pkgs should be updated as of 0.2.0)

Change it back to babel-minify? Ref #8

Given that it's just a preset + plugins it makes sense to just be babel-minify so everyone understands what it is and we don't have issues trying to explain it or it's pronunciation.

And after talking with people about it (what's that?), I refer to it as the babel minifier anyway. Haven't met many people that liked the name 😛 .

cli: babili
preset: babel-preset-babili

cli: babel-minify
preset: babel-preset-minify

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[hzoo]

babel-minify

[hzoo]

babili

[kangax]

I still like Babili. We can just clarify pronunciation — Babíli vs. Bábel.

[hzoo]

don't care option - EDIT: maybe should be the bab option

[amasad]

Meh... No one what the hell a googol is at first. Stick to your guns, it'll work out

[amasad]

Lol, not implying that this will be worth billions of dollars though. Just an example

[hzoo]

Haha we can hope

[jamiebuilds]

I would really prefer renaming it to babel-minify.

We should just have a name that tells people what it is. I don't see a need to hide the meaning behind a name.

[kangax]

@thejameskyle I'm not sure why babili is disliked so much. I would really prefer to keep it :) Unique-sounding codenames that don't mean much are pretty common and are usually not a problem — underscore, lodash, angular, ember, cheerio, mocha, gulp, etc.

[jdalton]

@kangax

underscore, lodash, angular, ember, cheerio, mocha, gulp, etc.

underscore, angular, ember, mocha, gulp are common words (not really search friendly either).

Lodash is uniq though. It's a play on "low dash", which is an alternative to underscore. That said, being too clever with naming caused problems. It used to be Lo-Dash which folks typed as LoDash, lo-dash, lo_dash, or Lodash. I eventually removed the - to keep it simple.

Something like babel-minify gives a pretty clear indication of what it is and avoids communication issues.

[jamiebuilds]

Unique-sounding codenames that don't mean much are pretty common and are usually not a problem — underscore, lodash, angular, ember, cheerio, mocha, gulp, etc.

Yeah but almost all of those are all umbrella projects. You then have underscore.string, angular-ui, ember-data, gulp-babel.

Having unique names for each individual thing within the projects just makes it confusing.

[kangax]

If everyone finds it confusing then sure, let's change it. I like Babili but I care more about what majority wants :)

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On 29 Aug 2016, at 22:16, James Kyle notifications@github.com wrote:

Unique-sounding codenames that don't mean much are pretty common and are usually not a problem — underscore, lodash, angular, ember, cheerio, mocha, gulp, etc.

Yeah but almost all of those are all umbrella projects. You then have underscore.string, angular-ui, ember-data, gulp-babel.

Having unique names for each individual thing within the projects just makes it confusing.

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