Sept. 5, 2013
2:15 p.m.
Stephen Colebourne wrote:
Its important not to forget the existence of non zic parsers here.
Yes, we need to keep that in mind.
Whereas if the additional zones were placed in a new file "extended",
Yes, that was in my proposal (since reverted from the experimental repository) and is also in Zefram's, and I expect we'll do something like that.
pre-1970 data for the existing set of IDs should remain in the main files
That doesn't follow. If the main files currently have a link, and we want to turn this into a zone only because of pre-1970 data, we want to keep it a link in the main file, so that we can support existing implementations that are based on the typical current practice.