Re: [Gretl-devel] Two GUI entry points for a package
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> I haven't had time to make the change yet, but it now seems to me that
> "sibling" is the wrong word, since siblinghood is inherently mutual (also
> transitive) and I don't have that in mind here. I'm now thinking of
"host"
> (or perhaps "server"). If package A specifies B as "host"
(let's say) that
> gives A access to B's private functions, but not vice versa.
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.
Allin