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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37795 ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-12-06 22:35 ------- The main reason for allowing you to ignore the contents in a difference test is because the performance of that is awful on files that actually match. Both the source and dest files need parsing and byte-for-byte comparision, which is slow. Over a network, it is extra slow. so by saying ignore file sizes you are cheating, you are saying 'ignore the file times' -which you ought to do over a network, and 'ignore the file contents'. you are therefore defining different to be 'two files of different sizes are different; if they are the same size, we assume they are the same' once you ignore file sizes you define different as "two files are different only if one exists". Which is what the <present> selector already did at the time of writing. We dont need an extra feature that another selector does, because it only adds complexity, bugreps and test cases. At the same time, I dont want you to feel disappointed that we have rejected your work. There was nothing wrong with the code, and you submitted a patch exactly as we like it. It was just we had a different solution to the problem somewhere else. Please dont be dissuaded from submitting more bugreps or patches, and hassling us to get the patches committed :) -- Configure bugmail: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
