[DAS] 1.53E validation errors

[Jonathan Warren]

I haven't pushed any changes to the live servers as yet - so caching  
will still be occurring.

On 1 Sep 2010, at 15:35, Dave Messina wrote:

> [Andy]
>> Dave, if you try to validate again, does it work now?
>
>
> No, as of a minute ago.
>
> A couple of days ago I fixed one of them which was previously  
> invalid, though, and it's now showing up as valid. Five others are  
> not, but they were fixed yesterday or today.
>
>
> [Jonathan]
>> Thanks for the feedback!
>
> You're welcome. It's entirely selfish — I don't want my servers to  
> be deleted from the registry. :)
>
>
>> I'll look into caching again on the validation
>
> Great, thanks Jonathan. I saw your subsequent email, too.
>
>
>> With regards to DSN being invalid when stated in the sources  
>> document I agree it's a bit of a usability issue so I've now  
>> changed it so that the registry will not complain about this and  
>> tolerate it both for 1.53E and 1.6E specifications.
>
> Wonderful, thanks.
>
>
>> Putting DSN validation is on my todo list - but it's very little  
>> gain in my opinion as it's simple and not got much to validate (as  
>> apposed to the sources document) and is also completely super- 
>> seeded by the sources document.
>
> I agree, so I think as long as it's valid to state it in the sources  
> document, that's enough.
>
>
>
> Dave
>

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