On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Why would mapping of property names be dangerous? >> > > I had thought of including this but had these visions > of someone setting a discrete result property for each > of a thousand source files... I see. I didn't say it would be a great idea to map property names as well, even though it may be simple to do. > it just seemed like that would be nearly useless from an end-user > perspective, to say nothing of eating up memory... thousands of output files would quickly eat up inodes. And given the right filesystem for the task (something like FAT) you'll get your system close to a halt with a directory of say ten-thousand files. > but it's possible I'm just paranoid. That's just because we are here to get you ;-) Seriously. I'm not sure whether properties per execution are actually desirable. At least nobody has asked for them yet. So maybe we should just remove the text that says we hadn't implemented it to protect our users. Simply don't talk about it at all - or implement it. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
