Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:02:01 -0400 From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/units units.lib Message-ID: <200207101402.g6AE21p13721@green.bikeshed.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:15:48 %2B0200." <20020710131548.D36004@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: > As Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > Joerg Wunsch <joerg@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > > Log: > > > MFC rev 1.13: a more correct rate between USD and EUR > > > > This is just as pointless as the July 2, 1993 curency rates that are > > also present in this file. Please remove all references to currency > > from units.lib. > > I don't feel obligued to do that. It's getting a bikeshed discussion. > The currency rates have been here for many years, and nobody ever > cared about them. Now that i fix a single rate, people start > yelling -- no, i won't remove them alltogether. _Why_? You know, if as a new user, I asked units(1) to tell me the exchange rate between two currencies, and it reported that it DID know the exchange rate, that it would give me an actual correct answer! This is _not_ useful. Don't say it's a bikeshed just because you don't agree -- this is a perfectly valid reason NOT to support this! If you want to do it CORRECTLY, be my guest. Find some way to fetch the current exchange rates off the net directly in units(1) so it reports something which may be construed in some fashion as correct. Otherwise, don't argue that our utilities should lie. I'm perfectly comfortable with you not wanting to remove them altogether, in which case I'm sure I or someone else will be happy to. :) > > The Euro-to-obsolete-national-currency rates can go > > into /usr/share/misc/euro if people really want them. > > This will lose functionality (you need an external calculator) > for no good reason. I agree with you on this, though. If there's a fixed conversion, stick it in units(1). If it's not fixed, don't. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org <> bfeldman@tislabs.com \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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