When a "shim" is not a "shim"

[MList -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com]

Let's imagine that a company puts out a product that includes 
software libraries that work just dandy on several operating 
systems and variants. Then, they expand support to a couple of 
previously unsupported variants.  To do so, the company finds 
that they need to make some straightforward, yet far-reaching 
changes to their libraries. In the short term, they opt instead 
to create an add-on or shim library that handles the differences 
peculiar to the new OS variants, without disturbing the stable 
and tested performance of the main libraries on all the other 
OS variants.

They'll stick with this format for the next point-release or 
three, then roll the shim functionality into the main library 
stream for the full-integer release.

Problem is that nobody at this (ahem) unnamed company likes 
the term "shim".

What's a nice, innocuous one-word name/adjective to replace "shim"?

So far, they've been referring to it by its obscure, alphabet-soup 
filename, but that's not the preferred solution.

Thoughts?  Suggestions?

/kevin

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