Back after a little break

[Shuang He]

On 2013/1/29 11:41, Carl Worth wrote:
> 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".

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

>
> 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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