On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 16:02:38 +0200 Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> wrote:

As I said, this is a slippery slope. Once you start down the path of "But program XYZZY does this, why can't you?!?", it becomes very difficult to get back to the real issue of what features truly are needed, for what reason, and what size of community would best be served by focusing on what work.

Past an early point an easy distinguishing factor is:

Are you interested in it enough to write a patch?

Are you interested in it enough to maintain a patch?

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