On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 07:07:18PM +0200, Zoran Vasiljevic wrote:

> We have it running for about 3 years already. No need to develop anything
> since it is already there. It does not change anything related to the main
> server so it needs no extra testing.
> It is just an C-equivalent of your shell-script and it alows you to:
>
>    nsd -s -t config.tcl

> Seeing all those responses... I think I'll just  keep our own patched
> nsd copy and leave all as-is. It took me more time to write all those

Zoran, I disagree.  If it is true that you've already done the work,
it works well, and it adds no significant additional complexity or
risk of failure to AOLservers which do not use the feature, then you
should go ahead and add it to the standard codebase.

Low risk, low complexity utility features, particularly of proven
reliability and at least some proven usefullness, should go into the
standard codebase, IMNSHO.  And Zoran, at least, is someone I think we
can all trust when he says it is low impact, low risk, reliable, and
substantially useful to at least some people...

Note that I probably won't even use that feature myself, but the
debate so far on the list - DESPITE providing lots of useful info on
alternative methods - still largely reminds me of the apocryphal
stories of business executives heatedly debating over the cost of
coffee and the color of websites - not because it's important, but
because it's small, trivial, and something they all already understand
and easily relate to.

--
Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.piskorski.com


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