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Added by James Chiang, last edited by Seth Digel on May 29, 2007 (view change)

This page has been inactive since August 2005 and should be considered of historical interest only. A more recent page with tool-naming issues is Proposed Tool Name Changes 29 May 2007

Proposed tool names

Names for the tools that follow the "gt" prefix convention have been proposed in the Science Tools Working Group meeting. Here is a copy of the table that was presented during the meeting with a column added for the package owners to enter their preferred names (when they differ):

Current name	Proposed Name	Preferred Name
TsMap	gttsmap
count_map	gtcntmap*
dataSubselector	gtdatasubsel	gtselect
diffuseResponses	gtlikediffresp	gtdiffresp
evtbin	gtcntmap*	gtbin
expMap	gtexpmap**
exposureMap	<may go away>
exposure_cube	gtlivetimecube
exposure_map	<merge with gtexpmap?>**
glbary	gtbary
gtbindef	gtbindef
gtcntsmap	<merge with gtcntmap?>*
gtsrcmaps	gtsrcmaps
likelihood	gtlikelihood?	gtlike
makeExposureCube	<merge with gtlivetimecube>	gtlivetime
obsSim	gtobssim
orbSim	gtorbsim
pulsePhase	gtpulsephase	gtpphase
rspgen	gtrspgen
sourceIdentify	gtsrcid
stpsearch	gtpsearch

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gtselect follows in the naming tradition of FTOOLS fselect and xselect that perform similar tasks.
evtbin presently does more than just create counts maps, so gtcntmap probably isn't the best name.
exposure_map and expMap should not be merged.

Posted by James Chiang at Dec 06, 2004 16:41

James Peachey proposed that 'evtbin' become 'gtbin' for the reason given above. Also, he proposed that 'gtlivetimecube' be shortened to just 'gtlivetime'.

Posted by Seth Digel at Dec 08, 2004 23:20

James also pointed out that we'd still be good citizens in the FTOOLS world if we wanted to add a hyphen after the gt for readability, e.g., gt-like, gt-srcmaps, gt-rspgen, gt-obssim. It helps a little, I think, and may make just ignoring 'gt' easier when pronouncing the names.

Posted by Seth Digel at Dec 10, 2004 11:58

It looks like gtsrcmaps is the only name that has "s" at the end.
Is there any reason for that?

Posted by Masaharu Hirayama at Dec 10, 2004 12:24

Yes, it creates more than one map if there is more than one source in the model, as there is wont to be. If it is preferable, "gtsrcsmap" is ok by me.

Posted by James Chiang at Dec 10, 2004 15:10

I don't like the idea of adding a hyphen in all the names. Just a useless character to type in my opinion, and a convention not used by anybody else.
To avoid misunderstandings in the general comunity, I think gtexpmap should be the tool that builds what is usually called an exposure map in other contexts, ie currently exposure_map and exposureMap. We should find some other name for expMap (gtlikemap ?).
I don't like gtlivetime for exposure_cube. I would prefer the word cube in the name. Why not simply gtexpcube ?
Finally, I find gtlike a little elliptic for likelihood. gtlikelihood is OK with me. Another (shorter) possibility would be gtsrcfit.

Posted by Jean Ballet at Dec 13, 2004 02:47