Re: [lmi] Enumerating open technical issues

[Greg Chicares]

On 2006-11-15 16:37 UTC, Greg Chicares wrote:
> 
> - What have we done that should be undone?
> 
> I think I mistakenly overconstrained this problem:
> 
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lmi/2006-11/msg00023.html
> |
> | I could imagine someone seriously writing this:
> |
> |   <!-- All '.xs?' files belong in this directory. -->
> |   <xslt_directory>/etc/custom/xslt/dir</xslt_directory>
> |   <!-- Specify the customary extension for your spreadsheet. -->
> |   <spreadsheet_file_extension>.ss</spreadsheet_file_extension>
> 
> Sure, one might write that, perhaps in a file that warns, e.g.,
>   GENERATED FILE, DO NOT EDIT
> but to expect comments and duplicate elements to be preserved
> when settings are changed in a GUI and then saved seems now like
> too much to demand of an xml configuration file. Trying to do it
> makes the code more complex, and the format of missing elements
> that get added isn't as nice as it could be. Instead of refining
> that code, I think we should remove the constraint; then the
> (replacement) code becomes trivial. Normal users shouldn't care
> how the file looks--the GUI makes that unnecessary--and comments
> such as
>   Specify the customary extension for your spreadsheet
> should be help elements in an '.xrc' file.

Rewritten without that mistaken constraint 20061127T1541Z in HEAD.