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>>>>> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> GLEP 55 is simple, it solves all the problems we have (including the |
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> version issue, which everyone is conveniently ignoring), it doesn't |
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> require us to guess what's going to happen next and it can be |
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> implemented immediately. That's a rather big deal. |
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The "header comment" solution solves all these issues too, without |
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embedding unrelated information in the filename [1]. It can be |
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implemented immediately, too. |
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The argument that was always used against such solutions was that |
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it would "hurt performance". However, when the council asked for |
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benchmarks that would prove that point, nobody could provide them. |
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Ulrich |
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[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename> "The filename is metadata |
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about a file; a string used to uniquely identify a file stored on the |
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file system." |