Hi Erwan,

Since you reverted fully but there was still a bug in the original code I've 
gone ahead and fixed it in r990347.

Thanks
Scott

On 27/08/2010, at 3:46 AM, Erwan de FERRIERES wrote:

> Le 26/08/2010 16:41, David E Jones a écrit :
>> Yes, please do revert the attribute changes, even in the trunk. There is a 
>> big backwards compatibility issue with things like this and even if we did 
>> decide to change these attribute names (which I don't think we should, there 
>> is no precedent for attribute names like these and therefore no consistency 
>> with attributes on other tags), then the Java code should accept both names 
>> so that existing code does not break. This is what I did before with the 
>> simple-method stuff when making the attribute names more consistent, and is 
>> vital when attribute names are changed.
>> 
>> Either way, this should be discussed on the dev mailing list first. It's 
>> kind of an unpleasant surprise to have things changed like this for those 
>> who are using them, and we need a much better reason than something along 
>> the lines of "I like this other name better". If other committers were 
>> making that sort of change for things you are using, it would be pretty 
>> annoying wouldn't it?
>> 
>> -David
> 
> Sorry guys...
> It has just been reverted at 989772.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Erwan de FERRIERES
> www.nereide.biz

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