Re: [Monotone-devel] Patch

[Jerome Fisher]

Bernhard Reiter wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:26:05PM +0200, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
>  
>
> > - Before it would always show full kb if bytes is > 16kb.
> >  I modified it to show kb or MB with one decimal after the comma.
> >    
>
> Actually your patch uses KiB not kB 
> and MiB instead of MB 
> as far as I can see. :)
>
> Seriously I learned that messing with the universal 10^3 based
> prefix SI-system is not a good idea. So I would prefer kilobyte
> and megabyte over kibibyte and mebibyte. If you really must use KiB,
> why not label it correctly? 
>  
I think that it would be wrong to use the label "kB" to represent a 
multiple of 1000. The convention of using "kB" to represent a multiple 
of 1024 bytes is extremely well established, and adherence to it would - 
I think - be expected by the sorts of people who a) use monotone, and b) 
care what value is being represented. I'd definitely object to your 
preference being implemented.

I have no particular objection to using "KiB" myself, other than it 
being very, very silly.

I'd be genuinely interested to read an elaboration of how you "learned 
that messing with the... SI-system is not a good idea". I always 
considered the "*bi-" prefixes to be an unappealing solution to a 
non-problem.

Regards,
Jerome