Back after a little break

[Carl Worth]

José Fonseca <jose.r.fonseca at gmail.com> writes:
> What do you mean by "not meaning anything"? "retrace" is in the
> dictionary, e.g. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/retrace :
>
>   retrace vb (tr)
>
>     1. to go back over (one's steps, a route, etc.) again

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".

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.

> 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.

Me too. I'll just keep coding and pushing to my repository for now.

-Carl

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carl.d.worth at intel.com
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