Aug. 29, 2013
1:35 a.m.
Petr Machata <pmachata@redhat.com> writes:
Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne@joda.org> writes:
Some systems will automatically map the old "backward" forms of IDs to the "correct" new forms.
How would they even do it?
Actually, yeah, they could. Java behaves this way, apparently. As a last resort it goes on looking for a file with matching contents, so for one of the links it finds the wrong file. But that's not new, that happens with Busingen and Zurych already. Thanks, PM