Re: filesets

[Paul Michael Reilly]

Richard Stallman wrote:
> 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.

Coming up with a solution to what "XYZ" should be is the optimal 
solution IMHO since it solves the problem in such a way that the next 
notion of filesets does not encounter this dilemma.  But I don't have 
any good ideas for XYZ either.  If I owned this issue, I would change 
"VC fileset" to "VC sourceset" and beg the problem for a while.

-pmr