From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Synchronizing synopses with the Womb
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:59:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sj2myh5w.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201304182239.r3IMdF0P032258@freefriends.org> (Karl Berry's message of "Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:39:15 GMT")
karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) skribis:
> For Nano, I’m not sure it makes sense to mention Pico (Pico wasn’t free,
> right?); instead we have "A small, user-friendly console text editor".
>
> Agreed. Except, trivial, there is no need for "A" here. So I changed
> it to:
>
> doc-summary: Small, user-friendly console text editor
Perfect.
[...]
> So how about:
> doc-summary: Hash library of database functions compatible with traditional dbm
Looks good to me!
> I can't say I'm enthused about verbose "key/value" instead of "hash" --
> are we not allowed to use technical terms any more :)? Either would be
> ok, but key/value will make my line >79 chars :).
It’s just that, as a gdbm user, the abstraction I manipulate is
key/value associations. But what you suggest is fine with me. :-)
> P.S. Did you talk with Brandon about synchronizing the guix/gsrc
> long(er) descriptions? He was going to write you ...
Oh, not yet. I had overlooked the fact that GSRC also has longer
descriptions.
It would be good to synchronize before Guix is added to the Translation
Project.
Thanks!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-19 10:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-17 16:17 Synchronizing synopses with the Womb Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-18 15:39 ` [PATCH] tests: Use a new synopsis of GNU Hello. (was: Synchronizing synopses with the Womb) Nikita Karetnikov
2013-04-18 15:46 ` [PATCH] tests: Use a new synopsis of GNU Hello Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-18 22:39 ` Synchronizing synopses with the Womb Karl Berry
2013-04-19 9:59 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-04-19 14:30 ` Brandon Invergo
2013-04-20 9:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-20 10:58 ` Brandon Invergo
2013-04-20 11:00 ` Brandon Invergo
2013-04-20 13:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-20 15:12 ` Brandon Invergo
2013-04-20 15:34 ` Brandon Invergo
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