Re: I-D archives available anywhere?

[Vernon Schryver <vjs at calcite.rhyolite.com>]

> From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu

> ...
> > For comparing what changed between I-D releases, storing at least a few
> > revisions in old/ directory would help if you want to check for changes
> > with e.g. diff(1).
>
> The problem with this, of course, is that 'diff' is notoriously bad at
> distinguising between semantic and syntactic changes.

Moreover, the only people likely to care are even more likely to
have previous versions, as well as to have solved the `diff` hassles
using any of several common tactics.

Once you start keeping some previous versions of I-D's, you will
quickly need to keep all I-D's forever.

> ...
> And *NO*, this is *NOT* a 'we need to use XML/HTML/etc' - we haven't waited
> the requisite 6 months before re-starting that flame war. ;)

Let's keep our flame wars straight.  This is the scheduled start
of the latest episode of "I-D's Should Not Be Expired."


Vernon Schryver    vjs at rhyolite.com