On Thursday 05 August 2010 14:10:52 Purcell, J. David wrote:
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> There are different interpretations that all allow different "valid" names.
> But lack of enforcement also allowed names to also be flat out wrong. And
> now those names are imbedded and we have no real plan on how to fix them.
> In the beginning, if we were told to fix the wrong names, there might have
> been an effort to get to one interpretation of the convention.
Note that since R3.14.11 the IOC supports record aliases, which may provide a
path to fixing wrong names (as long as the right names don't clash with other
wrong names). You would rename the records to the right names and add aliases
for the wrong names that are in use, which allows you to take as long as you
like to fix all the clients that are still using the wrong names; finally you
delete the aliases when they are no longer needed. If you do have name
clashes you can probably still do it, but it might take a few cycles.
- Andrew
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