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  • From: Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>
  • To: "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT sourcemage.org>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] OpenSSL 0.9.8 upgrade suggestion
  • Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:51:13 -0700

On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 10:29:30PM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> Quoting Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>:
>
> >One more thing for spellwriters to watch out for and know about, when we
> >can solve the problem generally. Other than that, a regex would be
> >adequate. For QA purposes, the less things gurus need to know, the
> >better, I think.
>
> I don't get what you mean here. If it can be solved without adding
> features, that's good, but if it can't, what does it have to do with
> anyone's ability to remember anything? We're talking about a problem
> that is hardly a domain of novice gurus anyway.

If I understand you correctly, you wanted to have people put a regex for
every library that has a potential to break downstream binaries.

If they don't, how will it not become an issue in the future?

Seth

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