On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 21:34 -0400, mbneto wrote: > Hi, > > I think that if we reduce to amount of metadata necessary to transfer > both users and maintainers will benefit. > > They will consume less bandwidth and be able to serve more clients and > the users will have faster downloads. And the people who get hurt are both users AND developers. users b/c problems will be put-near impossible to debug developers b/c they will have lost sanity writing and maintaining this code. "Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?" - Brian Kernighan -sv
