On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:13, Mark Linimon wrote: > There's really quite a bit of email in the mailing list archives > about why this was done. The short summary is that in the short > run there is some pain but in the long run this is a win for the > project, and the users.
IMHO it would have been nice for a clearer announcement to have been made regarding this, eg the reasoning and work arounds (which are easy but you have to know about them :) It is a very user visible change and it's rather disruptive (because make index is very time consuming) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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