Re: [Netatalk-devel] volume name length patch

[Frank L. <fra...@go...>]

2009/3/26 HAT <ha...@fa...>:
>>Hm, I dont care. Do you have a suggestion ?
>
> It need not be supported full.
> However, it is necessary to warn.
>
> #     -volnamelen <number>
> #                         Max length of UTF8-MAC volume name for Mac OS X.
> #                         Note that Hangul is especially sensitive to this.
> #                           255: limit of spec
> #                           80:  limit of generic Mac OS X (default)
> #                           73:  limit of only Mac OS X 10.1
> #                                if >= 74, Finder repeats crash and restart.
> #                         Mac OS 9 and earlier are not influenced by this,
> #                         Maccharset volume name is always 27 limit.

Very nice! I'll commit.

>>10.4 is supported by its vendor. Anything less is not.
>>Concentration on manageability.
>>Our ressources (development and support) are pretty sparse these days.
>>If for example I'd receive a bug report from someone on 10.2 which is
>>not present with 10.4 I'd more or less ignore the issue and instead
>>continue working on other usefull things (like currently a full-fleged
>>desktop/volumes scanning/repairing tool).
>
> Why is not OS 9 thrown away?

Because it's an historically interesting platform. Nevertheless I
personally won't work on it if issues arise.

-Frank