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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Features command for arch
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Features command for arch |
Date: |
Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:30:06 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: David Allouche <address@hidden>
> > You could also get by just by looking at the version number of the
> > particular tla binary.
> That does not scale. There are more "versions" of tla running
> around than the released ones. The tla is from some personal
> branch, it may have more or less "features" than the official
> release it is based on. This problem is especially apparent
> with new or experimental features which have not made their way
> into a release.
[....]
> Generally, it is considered bad practise to infer features from the
> version number.
Hmmm.
Asking for `features' in `tla' suggests that we suddenly expect *lots*
of users to all be running slightly different versions of arch, some
with such and such feature, some without ---- *AND* ----- we expect
that situation to get *so* out of hand that many external tools have
to deal will all the possible combinations of features.
When does K.I.S.S. kick in? Adding `features' *encourages* versions
of arch that are so divergent that the absense of `features' would be
sorely missed; if not encourages, at least prepares for. Leaving
`features' out has the opposite effect.
It's easier to write external tools if they don't have to test
`features' all the time. If I want to maximize, over the medium to
long term, the number * quality of interesting external tools,
shouldn't I reject the `features' idea to keep things simple?
Are special case glitches such as the CLI change you mentioned so
frequent that `features' is really needed? Or can we safely handle
those glitches on a case by case basis?
Wouldn't simply standardizing a fixed set of "features" accomplish the
same goal, but better? I.e., make what would otherwise be the output
of the `features' command a well-known constant.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Features command for arch, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Features command for arch, Tom Lord, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Features command for arch, David Allouche, 2004/08/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Features command for arch, Tom Lord, 2004/08/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Features command for arch, David Allouche, 2004/08/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Features command for arch,
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Features command for arch, James Blackwell, 2004/08/31
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Features command for arch, David Allouche, 2004/08/30