Re: EVR issues: set:versions, epoch-as-string, now twiddle-in-version

2012-06-28 Thread Alexey Tourbin
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Jeffrey Johnson n3...@me.com wrote: Why is it any wrong to minimize bandwidth, or, in other words, why it is bad to spend less money? Your answer is like, because the meaning of life is not to spend less money, which is a wrong perspective. Okay, but what's a

Re: EVR issues: set:versions, epoch-as-string, now twiddle-in-version

2012-06-28 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Jun 28, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Alexey Tourbin wrote: There is also a philosophical consideration which somehow accompanies this practical consideration. There is a short story, I believe by Borges, where a clever scientist devises a 1-1 map of reality. A 1-1 map of reality turns out to be a

Re: EVR issues: set:versions, epoch-as-string, now twiddle-in-version

2012-06-28 Thread Alexey Tourbin
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Alexey Tourbin alexey.tour...@gmail.com wrote: There is also a philosophical consideration which somehow accompanies this practical consideration. There is a short story, I believe by Borges, where a clever scientist devises a 1-1 map of reality. A 1-1 map of

Re: EVR issues: set:versions, epoch-as-string, now twiddle-in-version

2012-06-28 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Jun 28, 2012, at 1:27 PM, Alexey Tourbin wrote: The downside is, of course, that when a dependency R subset P is broken, it is not easy to find out which P symbols were deleted or renamed (or which R symbols are missing). But this is largely a developer's, or should I say a hacker's,