Extending NAPALM's Capabilities in the Salt Environment

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Has there been discussion of renaming Napalm, the Python project?

Napalm is infamous for having been designed and used as a horrific weapon.

Quote from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napalm#Development":

> One of Fieser's colleagues suggested adding phosphorus to the mix which increased the "ability to penetrate deeply...into the musculature, where it would continue to burn day after day."

Also, the photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc

Yes, I know, and I completely agree. It was meant initially to be a pun, and nobody expected back then the library would eventually so much traction. Even worse, I personally was giving a talk in Vietnam a couple of years ago, and you can probably imagine that I felt like an ass.

It has been discussed indeed, but unfortunately nobody volunteered yet to take the entire work of re-documenting everything and many other things that have to be done. But it's definitely something intended for the future.

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