From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tramp,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ls-lisp and remote files Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:25:16 +0100 Sender: tramp-devel-bounces+tramp=quimby.gnus.org@nongnu.org Message-ID: <3FAA59CC.1000204@math.ku.dk> References: <3FA16F54.80201@math.ku.dk> <873cd2h4vc.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068128994 27488 80.91.224.253 (6 Nov 2003 14:29:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 14:29:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tramp-devel@nongnu.org, Kai Grossjohann , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: tramp-devel-bounces+tramp=quimby.gnus.org@nongnu.org Thu Nov 06 15:29:51 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AHl8x-00050p-00 for ; Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:29:51 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AHl8x-0004gy-00 for ; Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:29:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AHl70-0006gb-OU for tramp@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2003 09:27:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AHl6k-0006dr-9z for tramp-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2003 09:27:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AHl4y-0005WB-2u for tramp-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2003 09:26:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.84.220.10] (helo=post.kabelnettet.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AHl4o-0005C5-8q for tramp-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2003 09:25:34 -0500 Original-Received: from math.ku.dk [62.84.220.219] by post.kabelnettet.dk with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.03) id A9E453603FA; Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:25:40 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: tramp-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tramp-devel-bounces+tramp=quimby.gnus.org@nongnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.tramp:1401 gmane.emacs.devel:17708 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17708 Stefan Monnier wrote: >I think we should simply switch to user-names, but if compatibility >is a problem, we can just provide an additional argument to select >between the two behaviors. > Just switching to names rather than numbers for user id and group id sounds appealing to me -- then we wouldn't have to introduce an additional parameter to file-attributes and directory-files-and-attributes. What is most important here, simplicity or compatibility?