Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Colin Walters <address@hidden>

    > On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 19:27 -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
    > >     > From: Colin Walters <address@hidden>

    > >     > I am not concerned about size.  I am very concerned about Furth
    > >     > or any other language as part of the arch protocol. =20

    > > What is this "arch protocol" of which you speak?  Really, you could
    > > mean any one of several things and it isn't clear what you are
    > > thinking of.

    > I mean the archive layout, the locking protocol, the changeset
    > format, the checksum format, the format and semantics of
    > =tagging-method and .  arch-inventory files, etc.


It's legitimate to be concerned with the design of those things.

On the other hand, you seem to be assuming that I'm going to do
something tasteless while at the same time you admit that I have a
track record of not doing tasteless things to those parts of the
design.

-t