Thread: Confusing names

Once before I mentioned that the Server Run-time Configuration chapter
was probably my most visited locations in the manual...

I like very much the split of that into two sections, but I think the
new chapter names are somewhat confusing.

My proposal would be to rename the chapters called

    Server Run-time Environment
    Run-time Configuration

to be

    Server and Operating System Environment
    Server Configuration Parameters

The first of these chapters is devoted exclusively to OS issues, some of
which are *not* run-time issues e.g. creating a database cluster, re-
configuring the OS kernel for various resources. Hence, I suggest
replacing the phrase Run-time with something associated with OS.

The second chapter is the server configuration chapter. It doesn't refer
to run-time *client* configuration, for example. Also the whole chapter
refers to "parameters" throughout, yet this is not mentioned in the
title. Also, the preset options section actually refers to settings that
are build-time parameters exposed at run-time, so perhaps the phrase
run-time is misleading.

Best Regards, Simon Riggs

On Thu, 2005-20-10 at 22:21 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> I like very much the split of that into two sections, but I think the
> new chapter names are somewhat confusing.

Yeah, I wasn't really sure about how to name them myself.

> My proposal would be to rename the chapters called
>
>     Server Run-time Environment
>     Run-time Configuration
>
> to be
>
>     Server and Operating System Environment
>     Server Configuration Parameters

IMHO "Operating System Environment" and "Server Configuration" would be
more concise.

-Neil

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 17:59 -0400, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-20-10 at 22:21 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > I like very much the split of that into two sections, but I think the
> > new chapter names are somewhat confusing.
>
> Yeah, I wasn't really sure about how to name them myself.
>
> > My proposal would be to rename the chapters called
> >
> >     Server Run-time Environment
> >     Run-time Configuration
> >
> > to be
> >
> >     Server and Operating System Environment
> >     Server Configuration Parameters
>
> IMHO "Operating System Environment" and "Server Configuration" would be
> more concise.

Works for me.

Feeling patchy?

Best Regards, Simon Riggs