Eh, it doesn't matter how it's handled. Someone, somewhere will
hate the fact the idea itself exists, completely ignoring the merits.
True, that. Logically we all know engineering is trade-offs but
emotionally we want it all for no cost.
While I do think using extended attributes would be the shiznit
(mostly because it would decouple comments from an arbitrary file
to the actual file with the comments). But even that could have
only been done 10.5+, no? (Since extended attributes isn't on by
default in 10.4).
Yep, and on file systems that don't support it, plus still remaining
backwards compatible, etc. All of these are not excuses to avoid
doing something better, just considerations to take into account. I
would like to see better recognition of partial solutions that move
us forward at least in some conditions over a never-occurring perfect
solution. Just my unsolicited $0.02.
\pat
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