From: "Steven Levine" Received: from mxout3.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.167] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.3) with ESMTP id 882005 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:08:48 -0500 Received: from mxin2.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.176]) by mxout3.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HHjA0-000ByG-Ey for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:08:44 -0500 Received: from pop-canoe.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([207.69.195.66]) by mxin2.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HHj9t-000G2C-Na for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:08:33 -0500 Received: from user-vcaur46.dsl.mindspring.com ([216.175.108.134] helo=slamain) by pop-canoe.atl.sa.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1HHj9m-0006DX-00 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:08:26 -0500 Reply-to: "Steven Levine" Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:02:08 -0800 To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" In-Reply-To: Subject: OT: subversion (was: New Hardware was(Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: PCI..) X-Mailer: MR/2 Internet Cruiser Edition for OS/2 v2.67/60 Message-Id: X-Mail-Handler: MailHop by DynDNS X-Originating-IP: 207.69.195.66 X-Spam-Score: -0.3 (/) In , on 02/15/07 at 08:04 AM, "Stanley Sidlov" said: >it should have been in quotes, what a dreadful name. Should be SubVersion >or Sub-Version so that it is recognizable as a 'product' rather than a >bad translation. I've often wondered how the name came to be, but never ran across an explanation. http://subversion.tigris.org/ explains the project goal as "The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community. The software is released under an Apache/BSD-style open source license." I suspect the name was invented by a non-native English speaker who did not understand the ideomatic implications, or perhaps he/she did. :-) There is a page explaning how to pronounce the name. http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn-committers/trunk/sounds/pronunciation/index.html Regards, Steven -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Steven Levine" MR2/ICE 2.67 #10183 eCS/Warp/DIY/14.103a_W4 etc. www.scoug.com irc.ca.webbnet.info #scoug (Wed 7pm PST) ----------------------------------------------------------------------