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Re: [Monotone-devel] Confusing terminology between usher and monotone an
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Hendrik Boom |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Confusing terminology between usher and monotone and proposed change |
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Tue, 10 May 2011 10:31:57 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 09:09:15AM +0200, Richard Levitte wrote:
>
> With my idea (just for the sake of being explicit), the following:
>
> server "newpub"
> local "--confdir" "/home/levitte/usher.projects/newpub" "-d"
> "/home/levitte/usher.projects/newpub/database.mtn" "--no-standard-rcfiles"
> "--rcfile" "/home/levitte/usher.projects/newpub/monotonerc" "--timestamps"
> "--ticker=dot"
>
> would be replaced with:
>
> path "newpub"
> local "--confdir" "/home/levitte/usher.projects/newpub" "-d"
> "/home/levitte/usher.projects/newpub/database.mtn" "--no-standard-rcfiles"
> "--rcfile" "/home/levitte/usher.projects/newpub/monotonerc" "--timestamps"
> "--ticker=dot"
>
> In human terms, the former would be expressed "this is the server
> named 'newpub', and local indicates how to start it." The latter
> would be "the path 'newpub' is served with a monotone started with the
> arguments given by local."
>
> hendrik> But the word "path" is in common usage to a sequence of
> hendrik> directory names separated by slashes, possibly ending in a
> hendrik> file name.
>
> The word "path" has been expanded, especially if we speak in URI
> terms, to something of a structured notation to reach a specific
> resource within a specific realm. That's exactly the way PATH is
> used in mtn://HOST/PATH?PATTERN .
This answers my objection to the word "path". Framing the ter+minology
this way removes the confusin.
-- hendrik