openframeworks / projectGenerator

repo for centralizing work on a tool to generate OF projects
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about the new name scheme for PG-generated projects: ISO 8601 and uniqueness within a given day #541

Open artificiel opened 1 month ago

artificiel commented 1 month ago

Recently, the generated projects in PG switched from a random adjective to a terse numeric date.

While the date might be useful, the previous scheme had its charm and had the practical effect of generating different names at each use. now the name is the same during a given day, requiring a manual intervention to distinguish a new project from a previous one.

If the end goal is to have the date in the project name, mixing both schemes (mySuperSketch_$date) would cover both functions.

And more importantly, one way or another, the date should not be American-centric but follow ISO 8601, so 20240709 instead of 070924.

danoli3 commented 1 month ago

Good idea to add as toggle able setting