Jeff Schroeder wrote:
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Dmitri Pal <dpal(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> [snip]
>
>>
> I had a long discussion with John about this at the end of the day.
> I think that we managed to come to some other consensus.
> If I got it right the rules of thumb are the following:
> a) Do not invent new meaning for the characters that are already used
> to have some other special meaning. Be consistent with use and meaning
> of the characters.
> b) Do not invent new syntax. Pick one of the exiting ones.
>
One of which existing ones? Are you going to be using ini such as
RFC822 or are you making up something new? NIH is in general a bad
policy.
RFC822 is limiting, it does not allow for a way to express the use cases
that I want to support:
a) Folding lines without preserving <NL>
b) Folding lines with preserving <NL>
I am looking for something that would allow me to do this.
If you know how to express these two cases using rules defined in 822 I
am all ears.
If not I am looking for some solution that would be least confusing.
I am not aware of any other RFC. If you do please point me to the right
direction.
So this effort is to try to identify a convention that seems logical and
intuitive to use and can handle these two use cases.
--
Thank you,
Dmitri Pal
Engineering Manager IPA project,
Red Hat Inc.
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