From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Another VC terminology change? Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:08:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20071011143005.GA18057@thyrsus.com> <20071011175016.GB8243@thyrsus.com> <87odf4ayop.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87bqb12w32.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192738155 12804 80.91.229.12 (18 Oct 2007 20:09:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:09:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, esr@thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 18 22:09:15 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IibgA-0004Fe-Uh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:09:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iibg3-0004FH-Ii for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:09:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IibfJ-0003Dm-8w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:08:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IibfI-0003Bs-Di for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:08:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IibfI-0003Bc-73 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:08:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IibfH-0007da-A8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:08:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IibfG-0004A7-QW; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:08:18 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:42:49 -0400) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:81161 Archived-At: I think we don't want to restrict the term "file set" to the specific one corresponding to filesets.el. Instead, we want to keep it as a fairly abstract concept, with uses in filesets and VC and other packages (project.el comes to mind although it doesn't refer to it explicitly). So, I'd distinguish between "file set" as the general concept, and "VC fileset" and (filesets.el's) "Fileset" as specific instantiations. In principle it could work to make "file set" a general term, if we have two suitable specific terms for the two specific concepts used in these two features. But that proposal has trouble in the details: if we use the terms "VC fileset" and "fileset", it sounds like the former is a special case of the latter. Can you modify it to solve the problem?