<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2013/1/29 11:41, Carl Worth wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:8738xkbqqn.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">José Fonseca <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jose.r.fonseca@gmail.com"><jose.r.fonseca@gmail.com></a> writes: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">What do you mean by "not meaning anything"? "retrace" is in the dictionary, e.g. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/retrace">http://www.thefreedictionary.com/retrace</a> : retrace vb (tr) 1. to go back over (one's steps, a route, etc.) again </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Yes, retrace is an English word. I don't think that's in dispute. I think the problem comes from the sense of "retrace" meaning "to trace again".</pre> </blockquote> I'd support to rename it to replay, since every time I introduced this tool to other engineer, I had to spend much time to explain what retrace means while at the end I just use that magic 'replay' Thanks --Shuang <blockquote cite="mid:8738xkbqqn.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> Since we already have "apitrace trace" in the interface, it would seem illogical to me for "apitrace retrace" to do anything other than doing again what "trace" did somehow. But that's just not what the replay operation is—it's not doing the trace operation again. And I think that's the source of the dissatisfaction with the name. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Anyway, this is a controversial issue so I rather not dwell further on it, and instead focus on new cool features which we can all agree. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Me too. I'll just keep coding and pushing to my repository for now. -Carl </pre> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <pre wrap="">_______________________________________________ apitrace mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:apitrace@lists.freedesktop.org">apitrace@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/apitrace">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/apitrace</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>