Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
Martin Ebourne wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 11:01 -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: Or, ya know, Canadians. Damn Canadians with their alphanumeric postal codes!! Here's a "do you mind if I tell you how we [uhh, they] do it in Canada" moment... Canadian Postal Codes are decidedly non-hateful. T

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-17 Thread Martin Ebourne
> On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 11:01 -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Or, ya know, Canadians. Damn Canadians with their alphanumeric postal codes!! > > Here's a "do you mind if I tell you how we [uhh, they] do it in Canada" > moment... > > Canadian Postal Codes are decidedly non-hateful. They avoide

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
Philip Newton wrote: On Jan 17, 2008 6:38 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: I think it's already been said, or maybe it went by on Twitter, but there's a special layer of hell for DBAs who store phone "numbers", social security "numbers" and PIN "numbers" as numbers. Ditto with postal codes -- esp

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-17 Thread Peter da Silva
On 2008-01-17, at 11:46, Michael G Schwern wrote: Peter da Silva wrote: On 2008-01-15, at 15:44, Michael G Schwern wrote: I argue that it *will* make things worse for the members of the third group for two critical reasons. Worse than just using a date, which contains *zero* information, b

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-17 Thread Philip Newton
On Jan 17, 2008 6:38 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: > I think it's already been said, or maybe it went by on Twitter, but there's a > special layer of hell for DBAs who store phone "numbers", social security > "numbers" and PIN "numbers" as numbers. Ditto with postal codes -- especially because som

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
Peter da Silva wrote: On 2008-01-15, at 15:44, Michael G Schwern wrote: I argue that it *will* make things worse for the members of the third group for two critical reasons. Worse than just using a date, which contains *zero* information, because it's something you have anyway? Not after it

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 03:19:21PM +, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:15:23PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: On 2008-01-15, at 10:03, David Cantrell wrote: Then stop calling them version NUMBERS. While you, and other people, continue to do

bzip2. Not very portable.

2008-01-17 Thread David Cantrell
Makefile assumes that CC is gcc. The code assumes that int is 32 bits and short is 16 bits. This is quite hateful. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Arbeit macht Alkoholiker