From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Files in wrong subdirs of emacs/lisp? Date: 21 May 2003 11:03:18 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20030520003139.5840.LEKTU@terra.es> <200305200625.h4K6Pd7e021207@rum.cs.yale.edu> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053482711 1180 80.91.224.249 (21 May 2003 02:05:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 02:05:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed May 21 04:05:09 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 19IIyb-0000Is-00 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 04:05:09 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19IJ9A-000195-00 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 04:16:04 +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 19IIyR-0001p6-Jo for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 20 May 2003 22:04:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19IIxn-0001mI-9Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 May 2003 22:04:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19IIxm-0001lr-8b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 May 2003 22:04:18 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.202]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19IIxU-0001Yk-22; Tue, 20 May 2003 22:04:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.193])h4L23sT15899; Wed, 21 May 2003 11:03:54 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv4.nec.co.jp (mailgate52.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.198]) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id h4L23nn22980; Wed, 21 May 2003 11:03:53 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from edtmg03.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.26.16.203]) by mailsv4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV4-NEC) with ESMTP id h4L23KC02703; Wed, 21 May 2003 11:03:43 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (localhost [127.0.0.1]) id LAA06949; Wed, 21 May 2003 11:03:19 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) with ESMTP id h4L23INH019746; Wed, 21 May 2003 11:03:18 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 3469F3733; Wed, 21 May 2003 11:03:18 +0900 (JST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 15 Original-cc: lektu@terra.es Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org 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:14029 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14029 Richard Stallman writes: > I don't think that add-log.el, diff*, ediff* and smerge-mode fall > under the category of "version control" as we normally use the term. > 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'? I thought that was a more general term often used to talk about version control and the like. [I guess it's a misnomer, strictly speaking, since you can obviously use CVS etc for more than just source code, but not a serious one.] -Miles -- Suburbia: where they tear out the trees and then name streets after them.