Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:40:34 -0500 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: Configure.help editorial policy |
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David Garfield <garfield@irving.iisd.sra.com>: > Eric S. Raymond writes: > > Please tell me you're joking. > > No, I'm serious. I will understand if CML2 does not support > meta-configuration. A configuration choice as I described above could > be viewed as a minor facet of a language configuration choice. > (Should kernel configuration be internationalized or at least > internationalizable?) > > Choice of kB vs KB vs KiB vs KKB could also be used in some places in > the kernel. For instance, /proc/meminfo currently shows "kB".
What, and *encourage* non-uniform terminology? No, I won't do that. Better to have a single standard set of abbreviations, no matter how ugly, than this. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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