Just a comment from an apitrace user: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:39:43 +0000 José Fonseca <jose.r.fons...@gmail.com> wrote:
> - I don't perceive "retrace" metaphor as wrong or particularly bad It is. It doesn't mean anything. "Replay" is immediately understood, "retrace" requires explanation and can't easily be remembered. > - for consistency with the trace metaphor > - for consistency with the project name (apitrace) I'm sorry but I don't see where the consistency lies. I could argue the same way about replacing any of the verbs with "trace" or a variant thereof. The whole point of vocabulary is to be descriptive, and "retrace" isn't. As for the VMWare argument, you don't need to update it - just alias "retrace" to "replay". -- Greetings, A. Huillet _______________________________________________ apitrace mailing list apitrace@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/apitrace
