Hello myself,

Oh my, this has evolved into such a fuvgybnq bs oyvaqsbyqrq penc[*]
that I feel guilty for the simple fact that the flamefest is subthread
to message that has my name on it.

To clarify -- my intent was to improve on "user friendly" aspect of
proplib's human interaction, need for which is witnessed by previous
discussion and even Core's vote (and my own taste, too). I took the
approach that seemed most obvious at the moment, ie. provide an
alternative format people would feel more comfortable hand-editing
in their favorite editor than XML.

But it's not hard to see that a specialised editor tool can help out on
this front at least as well (unless done really miserably, and I do feel
confident that NetBSD can do better than "not suck"). I didn't know such
a tool has been planned and didn't have any idea of what it could look
like -- if I did, I'd most likely just wait for it to appear instead
of getting creative in a different direction.

I had a lot of fun working on this proposal, but now that I managed
to filter the reasonable technical points in this thread from noise
and occasional acts of violence, I've come to the conclusion that if
Jason's pledit does *me* a good job of "user friendly", I'll just
abandon the idea and be done with it.

I'm dissapointed the overall vision surrounding proplib wasn't carried
upfront to the public in a clear way by the time it was imported into
the tree (and I don't care at all who's to blame) -- communication
failures like this form solid foundations to misunderstandings that
in turn make people waste their time and/or contribute to flamewars
in defensive action...

	-- Jachym

[*] Parental advisory: explicit rot13.