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Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: add bootstrap_sync option.
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: add bootstrap_sync option. |
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Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:19:36 -0700 |
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On 10/18/2010 08:34 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> I would prefer your "boot" script to be called "bootstrap", and rename
> the current "bootstrap" to something else, maybe "autoconfiscate"
Yes, that would be even better. "autoconfiscate" is a bit long, though.
How about "cobble" instead? "cobble" is a nice word, since it falls
between "bootstrap" and "make", and it has all the right connotations:
a cobbler makes (and repairs) boots, and a programmer cobbles together a hack.
- [PATCH] bootstrap: add bootstrap_sync option., Joel E. Denny, 2010/10/17
- Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: add bootstrap_sync option., Paul Eggert, 2010/10/17
- Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: add bootstrap_sync option., Joel E. Denny, 2010/10/17
- Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: add bootstrap_sync option., Paul Eggert, 2010/10/18
- Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: add bootstrap_sync option., Gary V. Vaughan, 2010/10/18
- Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: add bootstrap_sync option.,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: add bootstrap_sync option., Gary V. Vaughan, 2010/10/19
- Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: add bootstrap_sync option., Joel E. Denny, 2010/10/22
- tar bootstrap goodies that are not in gnulib bootstrap, Paul Eggert, 2010/10/25
- Re: tar bootstrap goodies that are not in gnulib bootstrap, Gary V. Vaughan, 2010/10/25
Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: add bootstrap_sync option., Gary V. Vaughan, 2010/10/17