[issue13763] rm obsolete reference in devguide

2012-01-17 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: I really think there is no bug. We don’t have to explain why Mercurial or hg are named so. The current text merely says that “hg”, which is the name of the executable, is commonly used as a short form of “Mercurial”. -- ___

[issue13763] rm obsolete reference in devguide

2012-01-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: I included both suggestions in the latest patch. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file24269/rm-obsolete-reference2.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue13763] rm obsolete reference in devguide

2012-01-13 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: I understand the phrasing this way: The system is called Mercurial and commonly abbreviated “hg”, after the name of its main executable. So we say “the hg server”, “I like the branches concept in hg”, etc. -- nosy: +eric.araujo

[issue13763] rm obsolete reference in devguide

2012-01-12 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: > Ezio Melotti added the comment: > > If 'program' refers to the executable, the sentence is still valid. Interesting. It didn't appear like that until you mentioned it. It was far more clear with subversion:svn than mercurial:hg. Sandro's suggestion rem

[issue13763] rm obsolete reference in devguide

2012-01-12 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 00:12, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > Sandro Tosi added the comment: > > But we may explain what's behind: "after the mercury chemical element symbol" > - what do you think? Good idea. That's actually what I thought it meant initially b

[issue13763] rm obsolete reference in devguide

2012-01-11 Thread Ezio Melotti
Ezio Melotti added the comment: If 'program' refers to the executable, the sentence is still valid. -- type: -> enhancement ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue13763] rm obsolete reference in devguide

2012-01-11 Thread Sandro Tosi
Sandro Tosi added the comment: But we may explain what's behind: "after the mercury chemical element symbol" - what do you think? -- nosy: +sandro.tosi stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker _

[issue13763] rm obsolete reference in devguide

2012-01-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : this line: "commonly abbreviated svn, after the program name" was once changed to: "commonly abbreviated hg, after the program name" and it no longer makes sense -- components: Devguide files: rm-obsolete-reference.patch keywords: patch mess