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On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:17:57 +0000 |
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Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o> wrote: |
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> > PN and PV are metadata, same as EAPI. |
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> So we made a mistake with PN and PV and may compound it with EAPI. |
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> How long before we *must* have other pieces of information in the |
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> filename? |
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Uh, never. |
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> When will the filename get so long as to become unwhieldy ? |
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Uh, never. |
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> Lets fix it properly now since it will be much more painful to put an |
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> extendable solution in place later. |
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55 is the fix. |
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> It reminds me of other hacks in the history of the PC which we would |
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> do well not to repeat. |
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> e.g. the MSDOS Partition Table, the Extended Partition, the High |
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> Memory Area. |
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Except that once we have EAPI in the file extension, we can change |
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anything we want in arbitrary ways without having to worry about |
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backwards compatibility, so we won't need silly hacks. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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