- From: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:05:36 +0200
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: public-qa-dev@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote: >I am not sure why all these messages are included there, >it is most unlikely that that our users will ever see a message like They are there because when we started out we had _zero_ explanations and needed a good list of possibles to start from. That file is automatically generated from OpenSP source, so it is canonical in a sense. >I neither really understand why there is the same "Help Wanted!" text >over and over and over again It was a tradeoff. By embedding the Help Wanted text into the Perl code you make future developments in the file format/features and l10n more difficult; and locks us in to the specific HTML format used in the message. I'm not sure the tradeoff fell down on the "right" side (but neither am I convinced it's "wrong" today!). All work on the file format should take into account Flexibility, i18n, and what effect it has on forward and backward compatibility between versions. Not that that would prevent the things you've suggested here, but... - -- Editor's note: in the last update, we noted that Larry Wall would "vomment" on existing RFCs. Some took that to be a cross between "vomit" and "comment." We are unsure of whether it was a subconscious slip or a typographical error. We are also unsure of whether or not to regret the error. -- use.perl.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.0.3 iQA/AwUBQH/MDqPyPrIkdfXsEQJU1QCgxHx5vcyFdB3pYuX7YphDZFwCQ8EAoOa5 09SCK9cIRXVpYvkZjstjW5ih =rx+q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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