Re: multiple definitions of the term "fileset"

[Eric S. Raymond]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden>:
> You added a lot of text in files.texi which talks about "filesets" in
> connection with version control.  This causes a problem because the
> term "fileset" is already used in a different way.  Search files.texi
> for address@hidden Filesets'.  (I warned you about this clash a few months
> ago.)

I replied at the time that the term 'fileset' is *not* in fact used in a 
different way, though the filesets themselves are.

In both cases, the term 'fileset' refers to a list of files used as
the implied scope for a group of operations of interest.  What differs
is only the operations of interest: in VC they are about version
control, onder the Filesets node they are visiting and search/replace.

The parallelism in terminology is not a bug, it's a feature.  Same
concept, same term.  To invent a different one would be to multiply
entities beyond necessity.

You didn't reply, so I assumed you either agreed or no longer thought
the case for a distinction strong enough to argue.

> Aside from that, several new node names do not follow our
> usual conventions, and some are too long.

I would be happy to fix these.  Are the conventions documented somewhere
you can point me at?
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>