On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 18:11 +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 19:01 +0100, Jules Colding wrote: > > > My main complaint against "orbit-io-thread" is that it is a magical > > string. We could do all ORB options by recognizing sub strings in the > > ORB name, but I really think than even one is a very bad precedence. > > You're missing the point Gustavo is making - this is not a "user > option", its a "developer option". > > The spec explicitly allows for vendors to add their own "magical > strings", so we're doing nothing wrong here.
That is correct, we are doing nothing wrong spec-wise. It is just, IMHO, not good taste to attach any special meaning to substrings in the ORB name. Best regards, jules _______________________________________________ orbit-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orbit-list
