From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Files in wrong subdirs of emacs/lisp? Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 09:17:54 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200305221317.h4MDHscT004059@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <20030520003139.5840.LEKTU@terra.es> <200305200625.h4K6Pd7e021207@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053611189 24113 80.91.224.249 (22 May 2003 13:46:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 13:46:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu May 22 15:46:23 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19IqOk-0006GM-00 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 15:46:22 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19Iqa2-0004lP-00 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 15:58:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19IqFn-000325-6r for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 22 May 2003 09:37:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19IqDY-0002Vp-3B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 May 2003 09:34:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19Iq42-0006g7-Ae for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 May 2003 09:25:30 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19IpxE-0004s3-B0; Thu, 22 May 2003 09:17:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h4MDHtx6004061; Thu, 22 May 2003 09:17:55 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h4MDHscT004059; Thu, 22 May 2003 09:17:54 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Richard Stallman Original-cc: lektu@terra.es Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14091 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14091 > > Maybe we can find a somewhat more general word that does cover them. > > "multiversions" perhaps? That would also include compare-w.el. > > How about `scm,' for `source code management'? > > That seems less descriptive and less correct than "multiversions". I don't really understand why. SCM is indeed a widespread acronym as far as I can tell, used along with configuration-management (which includes SCM and adds some although I'm not 100% sure what). Stefan