From: Jose Kahan (jose.kahan@w3.org)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 12:42:35 CDT
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:30:10AM -0500, kent landfield wrote:
>
> I'm not sure it really matters if the starting number is 0001 or 0000.
> In the past it has been 0. Somewhere this bug creeped in then it was
> both. Maybe we could just go back to 0 and put a warning in the README.
> Seems like a waste of code to keep worrying about backwards compatibility
> for bugs.
It does matter if you rebuild your archive and all your messages are
moved by one number.. this means all your links to them are broken
(they will point to the wrong message). I can tell you that this is
indeed serious, specially if you quote from the archives.
If there was a way to automatically detect the problem, I'd go for it.
But it's harder than that.
That's why I proposed to have that option there. It's easy to have
a script that rebuilds the archive and knows when to use one or the
other option. And perhaps all your messages start with 1, rather
than 0. You don't want to rebuild them starting with 0, if you wanted
to take advantage of the WAI changes.
-jose