On Qui, 2013-03-28 at 21:22 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > Of course not, but that's kinda different. In the one case, the long > > slip bought us an entirely rewritten installer. In this case, any > > potential slip buys us...a prettified release name. Gee, willikers, > > watch me trying to restrain my excitement. > > In any case, what this teaches us is that release names are not "harmless > fun" as the fans of continuing with release names have repeatedly claimed. > This pointless "fun" has a real cost. In this case, it actually PREVENTED > SYSTEMS FROM BOOTING! And once this got worked around, we're still wasting > time trying to fix issues with non-ASCII characters in the release name. Not > to mention all the time wasted discussing the nonsense. > > Let's drop release names NOW (ideally immediately, before the F19 release)! > The harmFUL "fun" is not worth the harm it causes. > > If some tools expect a release name, just use Nineteen as the release name. I agree with you , some tool are design to work with ASCII as in nineties and don't see any advantage of release name becomes UTF-8 strings. -- Sérgio M. B. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
