[Wp-install] Deleting comments causes other problems

[Michael E. Hancock]

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This is a heads-up about a problem caused by deleting comments.  Let's say
you delete comment #100.  At that time all comments from 101 to the highest
comment get renumbered.  No problem there.

But when a new comment (a new request for installation) is made, that new
comment may get 'inserted' back as comment 100 and the other comments from
101 to the highest numbered comment will get renumbered again.

Currently at comment 18, there is a new request that got posted after some
of the 'unfullfilled' requests were deleted.

That means that instead of looking at the end of the list of comments for
new requests, we will have to continually parse all the comments for open
requests.

Maybe we shouldn't delete comments.

Any ideas on what we should do?

MichaelH