This post generated some discussion on the mailing list(s) [1],[2] and on reddit [3].

The straw poll [4] garnered (as of time of writing this mail) 138 votes, broken down as

ghc-ide-engine   56 votes 41%

ghc-ide-service   43 votes 31%

haskides             19 votes 14%

ghc-ide-daemon 16 votes 12%

something else     4 votes  3%

So it seems -ide-engine is the favourite

In a bait-and-switch operation, I think it makes sense to keep the current "haskell-ide" prefix, and so rename it to

   haskell-ide-engine

This has the advantages of

  a) The prefix is the same, so continuity is slightly better

  b) It does not mentally shut out any tooling constructed using other compilers/techniques, such as haskell-src-exts

If anyone feels strongly that this is wrong, please let me know.

Regards

  Alan

[1] https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2015-October/121965.html
[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/haskell-ide/hI3MzXbwqTo
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/3qh19i/rename_haskellide_project/
[4] http://strawpoll.me/5842105/r

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:06 PM, Alan & Kim Zimmerman <alan.zimm@gmail.com> wrote:

At the moment the repository/project is called haskell-ide

This leads to the impression that it is an IDE.

It is actually a backend/server to provide services for an IDE

We are considering changing the name.

The options are

  haskides / ghc-ide-daemon / ghc-ide-service / ghc-ide-engine

Please cast your vote at http://strawpoll.me/5842105

Thanks

  Alan