> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ...
> > For comparing what changed between I-D releases, storing at least a few
> > revisions in old/ directory would help if you want to check for changes
> > with e.g. diff(1).
>
> The problem with this, of course, is that 'diff' is notoriously bad at
> distinguising between semantic and syntactic changes.
Moreover, the only people likely to care are even more likely to
have previous versions, as well as to have solved the `diff` hassles
using any of several common tactics.
Once you start keeping some previous versions of I-D's, you will
quickly need to keep all I-D's forever.
> ...
> And *NO*, this is *NOT* a 'we need to use XML/HTML/etc' - we haven't waited
> the requisite 6 months before re-starting that flame war. ;)
Let's keep our flame wars straight. This is the scheduled start
of the latest episode of "I-D's Should Not Be Expired."
Vernon Schryver [EMAIL PROTECTED]
