Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] Message from Matt

[Jonathan S. <gel...@ge...>]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Lukas Ertl wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Joseph F. Ryan wrote:
>
> > One thing that you'll learn is that we HAVE TO be backwards compatible with
> > MWS.  Unfortunately, that includes keeping similarly named configuration
> > variable names.  Its sad, and may seem stupid at times, but breaking this
> > rule defeats the whole purpose for nms in the first place.
>
> I don't quite understand why one has to be backwards compatible in
> variable names, but if these are the rules, it's ok.
>

I'm not absolutely sure why either - I thought that the compatibility
thing was only with respect to the inputs and outputs but ho-hum :)

/J\
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