From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:49:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add support for url aliases in config files
Message-ID: <76718490802201149w5a7c0b88udef968f4083190ea@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0802201418590.19024@iabervon.org>

On Feb 20, 2008 2:24 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
> This order of values is definitely the right thing, for the mapping
> reasons you saw. And I think "aka" is generally used to indicate
> additional non-canonical names for something with an official name (see,
> for example, IMDB's usage). I haven't been able to come up with anything
> better to indicate "this is a name that I will recognize but not use
> myself".

I think the word you want is "alias", isn't it? I've never really seen
aka used in a technical sense, whereas alias is used quite often (URL
aliases, DNS aliases, etc). So:

url.$canonical_name.alias = $local_name.

$0.02.

j.