On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 03:40:52PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > Which was exactly the purpose: to be able to make sure that the > list with official keywords really does only contain official > keywords, so a release tool can complain about misspellings f.ex. > If you simply allow both in a single list, then "netwrok" will go > unnoticed and make your module invisible to searches with the > correct keyword. > > I don't think the existence of two lists should matter to the > indexer -- official keywords in the freeform list should have the > same value as official ones in the fixed keys list. That sort of > defeats the above point, I guess, but a list for fixed keys only > still helps those who want its benefits. > > It might suffice to have the release tool check the list and tell > the user which keywords are official and which aren't, but I > don't know if that is helpful enough -- I personally would like > to be able to tell it to choke on all mistakes *except* those I > specifically declared as known non-official ones.
The only benefit I can see is that of spell-checking and that would be better done by an actual spell-checker. Isn't it important not mis-spell any keywords, regardless of their officialness? F
