ml>> hahaha, yeah, i see what you are saying... however, that's almost
 ml>> totally rediculous because that is exactly what userflags were
 ml>> created for ;-)

 JV>     Have they? I really don't remember. I'll have to dig in a
 JV> very dusty archive to find a paper on the subject I know I
 JV> should have.

i'd be interested in that info when you locate it...

 ml>> i know that some software i beta test for may not want to have to go
 ml>> thru some "approval methods" to be able to test a new
flag proposal

 JV>     Temporary approvals have been used in Z2 to test such
 JV> flags ;-)

possibly... but in the old days, it was generally enough to ask one's NC to
add the flag...

 ml>> ... especially if those "approval methods" are as
"time consuming"
 ml>> as the recent P4 updates appear to be... that would kill that
 ml>> software in no time flat...

 JV>     I fail to see the connection.

there's been a proposal to modify P4 on the table for over a years...
someone is (still) sitting on it...

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