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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch |
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Sat, 27 Sep 2003 12:07:26 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: David Brown <address@hidden>
> What if we made the format of the tags more "universal", something that
> could conceivably by used by systems other than arch.
> Perhaps:
> <punct> file-id: "text" <punct>
> or even something that makes it stand out more. That might help make it
> clear that the file tag isn't really an arch thing, it is just that arch
> is the only thing that can do anything useful with it.
> Other systems make use of unique id's for files or other pieces of data.
> Uuids get fairly common use these days. I don't know if we want to
> restrict the id's to a 64 bit integer, though.
There's no technical obstacle to doing that at all.
Which is really the problem. `inventory' tends to be at very high
risk for creeping featurism mostly because there's no technical
obstacle to adding new parameters and variations.
So, it's _perhaps_ a fine thing to do but shouldn't be done just
because the idea is there. There needs to be a definate (rather than
speculative) practical consequence.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Florian Weimer, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Tom Lord, 2003/09/28
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Miles Bader, 2003/09/29
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Tom Lord, 2003/09/29
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Miles Bader, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/30
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Miles Bader, 2003/09/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, David Brown, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch,
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Robert Collins, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Robert Collins, 2003/09/28
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