Re: [Gretl-devel] Two GUI entry points for a package
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.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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