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Shane H. W. Travis wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Gervase Markham wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Of course, you could make aliases...
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... no, *you* could do that. I'm not offering to do that; I'm offering to
clean up our code, make it more consistent, professional throughout so that
it conforms to a single style, thus making it both more readable and
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Sure, but your proposal has a significant negative side-effect, and
it's your responsibility as the proposer, not other developers', to
address it.<br>
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Fortunately, access to parameters goes through a single API in
Bugzilla, so an aliases implementation would be pretty easy to
implement. Alternately, you could make your modifications via a script
instead of manually (which is probably easier anyway), then we could
distribute your script to modified installations to update their code
with.<br>
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But I think aliases is a much better approach, and easily done to
boot. If you were willing to do this minimal extra work, I'd support
your efforts, and I suspect most other developers would too, or at
least they wouldn't object to it. Would you be willing to do this?<br>
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-myk<br>
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