Re: DEP5: Extra fields without ‘X-’ prefix?

[Dominique Dumont <domi@komarr.gre.hp.com>]

On Monday 15 November 2010 15:26:17 Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> >Without prefixing, parsers won't be able to detect typos in field 
> >names. So validation of copyright files will be harder.
> 
> Isn't your newly implemented warning feature suitable for handling this, 
> Dominique?

Indeed. But people using extra fields will get warnings, so they will ignore 
them. Then, they will also ignore warnings triggered by typos in standard 
fields.

All the best

Dominique
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