That makes perfect fucking sense. On Jan 12, 2011 6:18 PM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 No longer updated can mean broken, but it can also mean finished.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 >
