From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: filesets
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:26:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IjVCi-0008Rq-QZ@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
I saw the changes that you made in files.texi to try to distinguish
the two uses of "fileset". In effect, those changes tell the reader,
"please be aware of this ambiguity and cope with it". That does not
solve the problem. What is needed is to remove the ambiguity.
One way to do this is to find TWO modifiers. One concept could be "VC
fileset" and the other could be "XYZ fileset". I can't think of a
suitable word to use in place of XYZ; can anyone else?
The other way is to rename one of these concepts entirely. Renaming
the VC one is better since it is new, and thus not an incompatible
change.
You don't seem to recognize the importance of this problem -- you seem
to think it is ok not to fix it. It is not OK, and if no one fixes
this right, I will just remove the term "fileset" from the VC
documentation. (That is something I know how to do.)
next reply other threads:[~2007-10-21 7:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-21 7:26 Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-10-21 12:56 ` filesets Robert J. Chassell
2007-10-21 13:33 ` filesets Miles Bader
2007-10-21 14:01 ` filesets Stefan Monnier
2007-10-21 16:15 ` filesets Robert J. Chassell
2007-10-21 23:46 ` filesets Miles Bader
2007-10-22 9:00 ` filesets Richard Stallman
2007-10-22 12:15 ` filesets Robert J. Chassell
2007-10-22 5:59 ` filesets Paul Michael Reilly
[not found] <20071021192054.AD7BE7393E@grelber.thyrsus.com>
2007-10-22 13:36 ` Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 44, Issue 176 Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-22 14:45 ` Miles Bader
2007-10-22 19:01 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-22 21:52 ` filesets Robert J. Chassell
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