Re: client README stuff

On 31 Oct 2000 08:52:00 -0600, Karl Fogel <kfogel@galois.collab.net> said:
>
> Okay; your arguments seem pretty good to me. I'd like to hear what a
> few other people think before we change it.

W.r.t. the naming issue (not sure that's what you meant), ``revision''
has the authority of Cederqvist, whence I learned my CVS:

  Versions, revisions and releases
  
  A file can have several versions, as described above. Likewise, a
  software product can have several versions. A software product is
  often given a version number such as `4.1.1'.
  
  Versions in the first sense are called revisions in this document, and
  versions in the second sense are called releases. To avoid confusion,
  the word version is almost never used in this document.

Of course I am always reminded by that word of what one of my
professors thought was one of the few jokes in St. Thomas Aquinas's
_Summa Theologica_:

  ... the argument is either from authority or from reason. If it is
  from authority, it seems unbefitting its dignity, for the proof from
  authority is the weakest form of proof according to Boethius.
  (Part 1, Question 1, 8th Article, Objection 2)
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