> Would you be willing to add support for search domains, but turn it
> off by default? Would you accept a patch that did so?
You've convinced me. Yes, I would.
>> 2. I'm opposed to using domain search paths, and I'm a stubborn bastard.
> I'd like to know WHY you're opposed to them,
Because they break the main desirable property of names: location
independence.
In a computer network, we have three kinds of locators/identifiers:
- routes;
- addresses;
- names.
Addresses and names are localtion-independent: at a given point in time,
huponomos.wifi.pps.jussieu.fr refers to exactly the same machine for
everyone in the universe.
In the past, people confused names and routes; for example, UUCP used
routes instead of names in e-mail addresses. You'd end up saying silly
things like « if you're at Berkeley, my e-mail address is..., but if
you're at Bell Labs, it's... ».
Search paths break the location-independence of names.
Juliusz
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