On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 12:41:41 -0600 David Boyes <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> What about a human-readable message? > >> And if we do that, what about internationalization? > > > >Maybe. > > Please, no. That's user-level stuff, not on the wire stuff. Translate > the message when you log it, not in the packet. Then you have to standardize a new code and upgrade the clients before they can make sense of it. If this stuff is only for human-readable information, there's no machine processing to be done on it, so it makes sense to just send the string. I don't know if it's the way to go, but I don't think it should just be dismissed just because "strings on the wire are ugly". -- Andrew Deason [email protected] _______________________________________________ AFS3-standardization mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/afs3-standardization
