On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 06:32:10PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:50:27AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > breaking that would break software that expects this particular field to > > be in that particular syntax. > > That's not completely true; you could have an attribute type named 'gender' > with a different OID and different syntax/semantics, you just wouldn't be > able to use it on an LDAP server which also needed the use of the ISO > attribute type or of any object classes that are defined to use the ISO > attribute.
Yes; hence the quoted bit of my above paragraph. > But if all of our Japanese, Chinese, Greek Orthodox, Muslim, and French > Revolutionary developers can tolerate having to enter their birthdates using > the Gregorian calendar, I think we'll be able to make do with an opt-in > binary gender classification too. Ack. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]