Re: [Gretl-devel] Two GUI entry points for a package
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> Am 17.01.2019 um 17:42 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
>> On Thu, 17 Jan 2019, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>>
>
>>>>
>>>> How about "donor"?
>>>
>>> That's better than "sibling", but I kinda prefer
"host". The package in
>>> question is not actually giving anything away, it's just allowing the
>>> guest package (as we might say) into its private namespace.
>>
>> I have this uneasy feeling that "host" may not be transparent enough,
but
>> I can't think of an alternative.
>
> conferrer, benefactor, bestower, patron, sponsor, benefactor, godparent?
What I had in mind was more like "come inside, I'll show you a few things
that I normally don't share with others; be my guest and help yourself".
OMG, now that I see it written I realise this can be a little sinister.
As in "come up and see my etchings" ;-)
I was aiming for something with a computerish resonance: host/guest or
server/client. Maybe Sven's "parent" would work: that implies definite
non-mutuality, but that's OK unless we envisage cases where this
relationship might hold both A -> B and B -> A.
Allin