Karl Fogel <kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net> writes:
> If you get a chance, file a Post-1.0 issue for the extensible
> mime-type thing.
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1002
One complaint about Issuezilla. I thought the Post-1.0 Milestone
had been deprecated in favor of a post-1.0 keyword (i see i was
confusing it with bite-sized). When i tried to submit the
post-1.0 keyword change, Issuezilla responded with a blank page
(it still had the Tigris.org bandwidth waste, but the content
area was empty). No error message or anything. I searched
through my svn issues folder and found it was bite-sized i was
thinking of and then understood. Note that Bugzilla does not
have this particular defect (though i imagine whatever ancient
version was transformed into Issuezilla did have the bug, along
wiith who knows how many others; don't you just love effort
duplication?).
> (There appears to be no significant disagreement over what the
> functionality should be, only over the definition of the word
> "configuration", a debate I'm happy to stay as far away from as
> possible, ahem).
Don't take this as my trying to draw you into this argument, but
upon reading your comment it occurs to me some people might have
the idea i'm a raving lunatic obsessing over semantics. At least
in this particular case, that isn't what's going on. The natural
conclusion of the position i see Greg Hudson taking (that we have
a hard-coded "default" which is not itself configurable) leads to
the natural conclusion that the separate, configurable list can
only add to, not subtract from, the default. That points at the
fundamental mistake: there is one configuration item in question,
the list of types. It has a default, hard-coded or not. And
once you go there, the question is why have it in the code at
all? Just let the automatically installed configuration file
hold the defaults.
IMHBCO anyway ;->.
--
Eric Gillespie <*> epg@pretzelnet.org
Build a fire for a man, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on
fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. -Terry Pratchett
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Received on Tue Nov 19 06:00:42 2002