* Fergal Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-17 14:56]: > That said, I don't think having 2 lists is useful. The author > should supply a single list of keywords. Those that are on the > official list are on the official list, those that aren't > aren't. The search engine/indexer will be far better at > figuring that out than the module author. Otherwise you are > just obliging the authors to keep track of the official list > and move keywords around in their meta info as the official > list chnages.
Which was exactly the purpose: to be able to make sure that the list with official keywords really does only contain official keywords, so a release tool can complain about misspellings f.ex. If you simply allow both in a single list, then "netwrok" will go unnoticed and make your module invisible to searches with the correct keyword. I don't think the existence of two lists should matter to the indexer -- official keywords in the freeform list should have the same value as official ones in the fixed keys list. That sort of defeats the above point, I guess, but a list for fixed keys only still helps those who want its benefits. It might suffice to have the release tool check the list and tell the user which keywords are official and which aren't, but I don't know if that is helpful enough -- I personally would like to be able to tell it to choke on all mistakes *except* those I specifically declared as known non-official ones. Regards, -- Aristotle "If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't take life seriously enough."
