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

[Joseph F. R. <rya...@os...>]

At 06:51 PM 1/26/2002 +0000, you wrote:
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 :)


Do we really want to confuse people any more than we have to? I thought the 
goal is pretty much for them to be able to lift their existing config and 
plug it into the new one. Hence, drag and drop in :)


/J\
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