Re: summary of the discussions so far

[David Kessens <]

Marc et al.,

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 08:54:25PM -0400, Marc Blanchet wrote:
> 
> While there is a limited number of software that we know are working on the 
> registry (as opposed so smtp clients/servers for example), we should not 
> design the new language spec on the specific behavior of one specific software.
> 
> I would recommend to:
> - think about being as compatible as possible with the previous language 
> definition
> - but keep the design clean and right

I would tend to agree with you.
The differences that we are talking about are rather small
and it shouldn't be such a big deal to change the very
few existing client programs long before the new database
software is put in action in a production environment.

I would expect the parallel database to be running more like
a beta version for a little while. This has
to be done anyways, even if we would be totally compatible
according to the official extension guideleines.

David K.
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