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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 16:17:59 -0700
From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>
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On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 03:58:07PM -0700, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> 
> My hope is to do just that and make it as painless as possible to
> switch. It's non-trivial and considering the easy with which foot-
> shooting can commence, I hestiate to ask people to touch any of my
> patches.

Fair enough.

> I'm trying to provide options. I'm encouraging a dynamic world (and
> think it's the correct solution for 5.2, esp if we are going to be
> touting our NSS support).

Let's cross that bridge when we come to it. I can't recall seeing a
technical reason why we should not *allow* a shared world (I've seen
technical reasons why we should allow it). Most, if not all resistence
is about making it the default (AFAICT). Let's allow it first. Have a
bike shed about the default later.

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net