Apparently, though unproven, at 00:42 on Thursday 13 January 2011, Grant Edwards did opine thusly:
> On 2011-01-12, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:33:02 +0000, Stroller wrote: > >> > No longer updated can mean broken, but it can also mean finished. > >> > >> Boot to BTFS filesystems? > > > > Finished != complete > > Maybe not on the right hand side of the pond, but here in the US > finished == complete. If you look in the Merriam-Webster dictionaly > under "finished" both "completed" and "complete" are listed as > synonyms. Dictionaries document current usage and current usage sucks. The right hand side of the pond invented English so maybe you should call your language "American", but we have dibs on English :-) Finished and complete and not the same, they are just similar. Complete is pretty much an absolute. Something is complete, it is done, nothing more can be added, nothing can be removed. Finished is a lower grade of that, a part can be finished and the whole is still incomplete. Grub is finished. There is nothing left to do to it in it's current state at this time. Sometime this year, btrfs will likely be stable and then grub can be extended to use it. That phase will then be finished but grub itself will not be complete. grub cannot be complete as there are always new file systems and boot methods that could be added. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
