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On 9 Jun 2008, at 10:50, Luca Barbato wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>>> I'm afraid you are mixing up emails from this thread. I got |
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>>> complaints about how wrongly the PMS is written, e.g. academic paper |
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>>> markup vs plain text, natural language used to specify syntax |
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>>> while a |
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>>> grammar notation like EBNF would be better suited, when I asked |
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>>> people why so few were contributing about this document. |
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>> Mmm, and how many people claiming that have suggested specific |
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>> improvements or pointed out specific complaints? |
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> You got some right here. Feel free to address them. |
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>> So how, specifically, is PMS "wrongly written", and why hasn't anyone |
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>> who thinks so bothered to provide details? |
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> - rewrite it as an rfc using a markup among xmlrfc, docbook, guidexml. |
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> - use EBNF when describing a syntax. |
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> - split it and version each functional part. |
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> - define EAPI as an aggregate of those versions in a separate part. |
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> lu |
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And how specifically is this going to help? You are missing the |
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'provide details' part. |
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- ferdy |
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