On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 06:25:05PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > The objections weren't addressed because they objected to the very point of > the spec, making it impossible to address them without defeating the purpose > of the spec. A spec that allows two conformant implementations to differ to such a degree that it's impossible for an application to work sensibly in both implementations is a *bad* *spec*. The only argument anyone had against that was "Oh, nobody would implement the spec in that way", which is another huge blaring warning that it's a bad spec. There was a simple and straightforward way of handling this, which was to rewrite the problematic parts of the specification in order to constrain implementations. But nobody bothered, and so it continues to be a bad spec. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
