On Mar 15, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Tim Bannister wrote: > On 15 Mar 2012, at 12:14, Rich Bowen wrote: > >> I really don't want one enormous file > > Can you say why not? My preferences (for what it's worth) would either be the > one huge file or the doxygen-like comments. In both cases, patches that > change the help for an error code should still be easy to read and apply.
Hmm. Good question. Why don't I want an enormous file? I think maybe it's because I hate enormous files, and that's not a very good reason. Reasons that occur to me are: * Daunting for translation purposes. (Maybe not?) * Hard to find what you want - although that's nonsense, because it's indexed by error message number * XML parsing gets slower the bigger the file gets. Although this isn't a huge deal, either, You know, maybe I don't have a good reason. It seemed self-evident, but now that I think about it ... Anyone else have a thought on this? -- Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com :: @rbowen rbo...@apache.org
