On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo.nieme...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > With assertions finally being put to great use, it's time to kill the term > "sideloading". That term does a disservice to our conversations, because it > is vague and also limits the thinking around what is possible. > > Whenever we use "sideloading", we mean one of two things: > > 1. The installation of a snap from the local filesystem > 2. The installation of a snap that is not backed by assertions > > We can talk about these cases using this actual terminology. To talk about > the second case tersely we can use "unasserted", which is apparently a real > term [1]: > > "1. resting on a statement or claim unsupported by evidence or proof; > alleged:" > > That's exactly what we mean by that. > > With assertions, we can have the first case without the second, though. A > snap in the local filesystem doesn't necessarily have to be unasserted. > > So: > > Case 1: sideload => local snap > Case 2: sideload => unasserted snap > > How does that sound?
It's a reasonable suggestion, but you'll need to match the part of speech. "sideload" here is a verb, whereas "local snap" and "unasserted snap" are adjective + noun tuples. (And "sideloading" is a gerund, or a present participle verb form.) I think you're suggesting, s/sideload/install local/ and s/sideload/install unasserted/. So, colloquially: "Hey Jim, yeah, to do that you'll need to just sideload your snap" becomes "Hey Jim, yeah, to do that, you'll need to just install a local snap" or "Hey Jim, yeah, to do that, you'll need to install an unasserted snap." (While I find "unasserted" a little bumpy, but I'm sure it may feel a little more comfortable with practice.) -- Snapcraft mailing list Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft