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The first thing that stuck out to me was the name and logo. Alcatraz sounds cool (and I like the logo), but I'm not sure if something that evokes imagery of being confined and locked up is what you want associated with an open-source package manager.

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I'm not sure if something that evokes imagery of being confined and locked up

Given that it's for Xcode, the one dev-tool to rule them all, in the walled garden where Apple has all the keys, I think it fits perfectly.

Yeah, I would agree except that AppCode does Xcodes job a lot better than Xcode.

I'm pretty sure it's more a reference to the fact that XCode extension management is rather painful and feels like you're stuck using that IDE sometimes.

I don't think it has any effect on me using the tool but I would say that Alcatraz has negative connotations for me.

There are Ruby "Gems" and Cocoa "Pods", I'm trying to think of a similar name that evokes something that can be slotted in to something else... Cubby?

Cubby - any of a group of small boxlike enclosures or compartments, open at the front, in which children can keep their belongings, as at a nursery school.

It's like jailbreak for Xcode, that's the metaphor

Er, isn't this the opposite of a metaphor? A metaphor would be the name of a famous prison escape, not a famous prison itself.

Maybe "Morris" would be a better name (Clint Eastwood in Escape From Alcatraz).

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