With me, it is not an issue of looking down at the documentation, but simply that I don't know for sure how I want it until I have attempted to implement it. Put it down to lack of experience or whatever, but despite what every teacher and book will tell you, I feel much more comfortable implementing first, and specing afterwards.
On Tue, 09 May 2000, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote: > > Which brings up a question I have. Is the description of the protocol that > > has > > been so kindly provided by Mr. Crocker an accurate picture of what changes > > are going to be made? Message types, headers and field values, etc. > > It would be nice to know if it describes what folks are intending to > > implement. > > So far, the primary coders (Oskar, Brandon, and Ian) have been the > most silent on the matter of the spec, and have provided little or > no feedback. Witness the recent argument about DataLength and > EndMessage: this was argued by several of us, reached a general > consensus among those involved in the argument, and has been > rigorously specified to the byte, but the code violates it and the > coders haven't given me any suggestions about how to change it. > > I can certainly understand a code jockey's resistance to what might > be perceived as a "documentation" task, but in this case it's quite > dangerous, because Freenet isn't the code--it's the spec. > > I'd put it this way--it is my intent that the spec accurately > reflect what I think the coders intend. But my impression of their > intent is limited to what I can glean without their help. > > -- > Lee Daniel Crocker <lee at piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> > "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, > are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified > for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC > > > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev -- Oskar Sandberg md98-osa at nada.kth.se #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
