On 08/01/15 14:18, Kurt Zeilenga wrote:
>> On Jan 7, 2015, at 9:27 AM, Ralph Meijer <ral...@ik.nu> wrote:
>>
>> On 2015-01-07 16:15, Adrien wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 01/07/2015 03:42 PM, Edwin Mons wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> XEP-0060 lists both delete-items and retract-items for the same feature,
>>>> <retract/>. delete-items was added in the last revision, but it looks
>>>> like an error to me. I think 7.2 should be revised, and one of the two
>>>> features (likely delete-items) should be removed.
>>> yes you're right. At least that's what I have been told ("delete-items
>>> is the surplus one") when I asked.
>> I forget why it was added in the last version of this XEP, but it surely
>> wasn't missing as mentioned in the changelog, as we had 'retract-items'
>> as a feature for a long time. Reading the text around it, I feel it is
>> confusing, too. I'd rather go with talking about 'retracting items' and
>> 'deleting nodes' thoughout, and not talk about 'deleting items'.
>>
>> I think that many (all?) clients ignore this feature for discovery
>> altogether, so what about making 'delete-items' a thing that servers
>> SHOULD also advertise along with 'retract-items', but have clients
>> depend on 'retract-items' exclusively?
> Personally, I rather not add cruft like this. Has any server ever
> advertised this? Has any client ever relied on this? And, if it’s only
> SHOULD, no client can rely on it… Better, IMO, to just require one
> <feature/> to be advertised per feature.
>
Eh, I've seen delete-items advertised in the wild, because M-Link
advertises it.
Edwin
