Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To : Jan Vermeulen
From : mark lewis
Date : Sun Dec 29 2002 08:09 pm
ml>> hahaha, yeah, i see what you are saying... however, that's almost
ml>> totally rediculous because that is exactly what userflags were
ml>> created for ;-)
JV> Have they? I really don't remember. I'll have to dig in a
JV> very dusty archive to find a paper on the subject I know I
JV> should have.
i'd be interested in that info when you locate it...
ml>> i know that some software i beta test for may not want to have to go
ml>> thru some "approval methods" to be able to test a new flag proposal
JV> Temporary approvals have been used in Z2 to test such
JV> flags ;-)
possibly... but in the old days, it was generally enough to ask one's NC to add
the flag...
ml>> ... especially if those "approval methods" are as "time consuming"
ml>> as the recent P4 updates appear to be... that would kill that
ml>> software in no time flat...
JV> I fail to see the connection.
there's been a proposal to modify P4 on the table for over a years... someone
is (still) sitting on it...
