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Gluten is a middle layer responsible for offloading JVM-based SQL engines' execution to native engines.
https://gluten.apache.org/
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[CORE] Rename: s/backends/backend #6883

Open zhztheplayer opened 4 weeks ago

zhztheplayer commented 4 weeks ago

We have a couple of stuffs named with prefix backends. E.g.,

  1. Maven module names (e.g., backends-velox)
  2. Folder names (e.g., o/a/g/backendsapi)
  3. Code (e.g. BackendsApiManager)

backends for code module is not likely a perfect name. Usually in code we use singular form to indicate a module that is an extension of a series of APIs, say connector-<lib>, consumer-<lib>, engine-<lib> etc. Plural is actually not usual as it could misleads one to treat it as "a set of something", though the actual intention was "one element in a set". Regarding word backends itself, it is a little bit difficult to pronounce comparing to backend either.

I'd propose to rename backends to backend. It could be a big change, so would be great to hear voices from the community.

PHILO-HE commented 4 weeks ago

@zhztheplayer, also note some maven profiles are named in the same way, e.g., backends-velox. Better to change it also.