As David says, this pair of observations have been made before
but may have gotten lost in longer messages. +1 -- I really
think that stability issue is the bottom line.
john
--On Friday, April 10, 2015 06:31 -0700
ned+ietf(_at_)mauve(_dot_)mrochek(_dot_)com wrote:
It would be irresponsible to break a long-time commitment to
the stability of these references. And it would make the
organization look incompetent. I can imagine that there are
situations where access to specific documents by explicit
reference would traverse a firewall that wouldn't allow the
generic searches needed to locate the alternative access
method.
I have to say I find this argument extremely compelling.
If the FTP server product which refuses to follow SYMLINKs
must be used for some operational reason, creating a clone of
the tree full of SYMLINKs with fully resolved file copies
isn't rocket science. rsync for example will perform that
function with the proper flags.
Exactly what I thought when I first heard of the issue.