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Robin Fairbairns
Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Tue Oct 12 13:06:53 CEST 2010
Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) <P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk> wrote:
> Robin Fairbairns wrote:
>
> > agreed: that would catch that problem.
>
> [...]
>
> > again, would catch this situation, but both of these ad hoc rules could
> > easily cause problems elsewhere, with packages with different naming
> > conventions and/or directory structures.
> >
> > the problem is the well known one of herding cats.
>
> [...]
>
> > i suspect that the results of the analysis would provide
> > really rather little by way of "general rules".
>
> Ah, but surely that is /why/ one does a statistical analysis;
> to eliminate "suspicions" and replace them by facts :-)
you omit my other remark about collecting the data.
in a resource-poor organisation such as tl, i can't see it ever
happening.
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