On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:49 AM, Gary Gregory wrote: > >> Hi All: >> >> The more I think about it and read it, the more non-English and odd the word >> "filesystem" feels to me. I would never write: 'Do this or that with the >> filesystem.' It just sounds Dutch or German to me. That's what I get for >> working with Dutch people :) >> > > Speaking as a native American English speaker and confessed spelling/grammar > nazi, I would personally *prefer* to see the compound "filesystem" used > instead of "file system". I consider it to be simply one of those computing > terms that is no less correct for your spell checking software refusing to > recognize it. >
Thanks Matt for your opinion. Part of me thinks its a bit late in the day to raise this when its been in svn for 2+ years. But then again, if more people agree with Gary then I can cancel the release and rename them (I would probably opt for FileItem, FileObserver, FileMonitor rather than FileSystemItem, FileSystemObserver, FileSystemMonitor). Opinions welcome - either way :) Niall > $0.02, > Matt > >> I am not the guardian of the English lanugage (and neither is Wikipedia), I >> do not see compound nouns in English like as I do speakers of other >> languages use them. >> >> About the Wikipedia entry: They do say "often also written as filesystem" >> but so what? Wikipedia says a lot of things... >> >> I am kinda ranting on this one because I think names are very important. >> >> Gary >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Niall Pemberton [mailto:niall.pember...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 05:11 >> To: Commons Developers List >> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Commons IO 2.0 based on RC3 >> >> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Gary Gregory >> <ggreg...@seagullsoftware.com> wrote: >>> I am looking around and I notice set of class names that are IMO >>> incorrectly camel-cased: Filesystem* should be FileSystem because >>> "filesystem" is not a word in English. >> >> Thats true but its often written as one - see wikipedia "A file system >> (often also written as filesystem) is..." >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system >> >> ...and I think it gives better emphasis that way. >> >> Also JCI was released with the same naming (which IO was initially >> based on, before a complete refactoring): >> >> http://commons.apache.org/jci/apidocs/index.html >> >> Niall >> >> >>> Gary Gregory >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Niall Pemberton [mailto:niall.pember...@gmail.com] >>> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 21:31 >>> To: Commons Developers List >>> Subject: [VOTE] Release Commons IO 2.0 based on RC3 >>> >>> I have prepared Commons IO 2.0 RC3. The main changes since RC2 are >>> improvements to some tests which were causing intermittent failures in >>> Gump & Continuum and JavaDoc improvements. For details about Continuum >>> builds/failures, see: >>> http://people.apache.org/~niallp/io-2.0/IOFailures.html >>> >>> The distro is here: >>> http://people.apache.org/~niallp/io-2.0-rc3/ >>> >>> Release Notes: >>> http://people.apache.org/~niallp/io-2.0-rc3/RELEASE-NOTES.txt >>> >>> Site: >>> http://people.apache.org/~niallp/io-2.0-rc3/site/ >>> >>> Maven Stuff: >>> http://people.apache.org/~niallp/io-2.0-rc3/maven/ >>> >>> Some Notes: >>> >>> * There is one error on the clirr report - which is a false positive >>> (a generic method that is erased) >>> http://people.apache.org/~niallp/io-2.0-rc3/site/clirr-report.html >>> * Links to the JavaDoc versions on the site don't work (they will when >>> its deployed to the right location) >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Niall >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
