Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't see what other wishlist bug I ought to file here. The bug is
> "please add more airport codes"; I realise it's somewhat open-ended but
> I don't see how another bug report would help. There are a finite number
> of airports in the world, and all the major ones have codes, so it must
> be possible to extend it.
No, *all* the airports have codes, and there are tens of thousands of
them. So your request is one of the following:
1) Add all the airport codes (but then, it should be tagged "wontfix"
and ignored; what's the point?)
2) Add such-and-such airport codes (in which case, please give the
list);
3) Add all airport codes that meet such-and-such a standard (in which
case, please give the standard).
In cases (2) and (3) it is as I said: it's a statement that some
*other* wishlist bug would be a good idea.
> I think it's perfectly reasonable to have a wishlist bug asking for the
> airport list to be extended beyond the United States, even if it
> currently happens to be specific to the US plus a few more bits. Air
> travel being what it is, surely there is little value in demanding that
> the codes must be listed in lots of different places, one for each
> country.
The question is: *what* extension would you like? Instead of vague
terms ("more non-US airports"), do you have a particular standard?
It's not like somebody had a big list of all the airports and
deliberately selected only the US ones--as if there were even all of
those.
Otherwise, it's a little like saying, "GNU Emacs isn't good at
internationalization. Make it better at internationalization."
That was (once) a very sensible request, but not a sensible wishlist
item.
Thomas
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