On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 10:23:36AM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote: > ?b ???, 2003-10-25 18:27, Tim Bunce ?g?D?G > > That will be a massive increase in data volume. > > I fail to see why. They are, after all, highly redundant and very > gzippable.
Sure it's very gzippable, but it'll still be huge when unzipped and slow to process. But my main point is that you should not need the data... > Also, users may freely specify version ranges that disallows > minor versions, not only major ones. You don't *need* the data for every minor version in order for users to freely specify version ranges that disallows minor versions. Missing data can be infered from the data that is provided. Tim.