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curl / wcurl

a simple wrapper around curl to easily download files
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Use a pronounceable name? How about wurl? #12

Closed jas4711 closed 2 weeks ago

jas4711 commented 2 months ago

Thanks for this project, I can sympathize with the rationale because I never managed to learn the syntax to make curl do what wget does either. The name is really hard to pronounce though, and command line completion is stuck on the well-know Unix tool wc. Did you consider renaming this to something else? How about wurl? The two-letter prefix wu doesn't complete to anything on my machine, so presumably no too common Unix tool clashes.

I'm sure you already thought about this, but I didn't see a issue about it for having a public discussion on it, so here is :)

ilyagr commented 1 month ago

While I'm not in a position of responsibility here, I like the wcurl name, it makes it pretty clear what the tool is.

I would pronounce wcurl as double-you curl, and wget as double-you get, so to me their pronunciation is equivalent in difficulty. How would you pronounce wget?

Furthermore, I found wurl more difficult to pronounce, or at least more awkward-sounding. Is it like whirl, but whurl?

BrianInglis commented 1 month ago

Sounds like wh[aeiou]rl: fudge the vowel depending on accent - give it a wurl; take it for a wurl; like how that sounds ;^> ++

samueloph commented 3 weeks ago

I'm afraid it became too late to change the name, but I'm also not sure there's a better alternative.

I acknowledge the issue with CLI completion and the clash with wc, but I like more the upside of having a clear name such as wcurl. Having curl in the name makes it clear this is just curl, with a wrapper on top.

Regarding the pronunciation, none of the alternatives are easier to pronounce for me: wurl, whirl, whurl... are all things that I would struggle much more rather than wcurl.

This being said, how easy it is to pronounce will depend on your native language, so it is a bit subjective after all.

A couple of weeks ago someone pointed out that I always pronounce the w in wcurl in Brazilian Portuguese rather than English, maybe that's a reason I find it easier to pronounce it?! The Brazilian pronunciation of w is close enough to the English one such that everybody still understands it.

sergiodj commented 2 weeks ago

Agreed with @samueloph here. That ship has sailed :-). Also, wurl is very hard to pronounce! :D