Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: reformat for readability

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> I thought I'd try out reformatting lines to make them more readable on
> other projects first, before doing further changes to gnulib along
> these lines, as there seems to be some controversy about it and it's
> better to get some experience with it.  However, some files are
> shared, and the gnulib versions need reformatting so that they can be
> more easily synchronized.  bootstrap is one of these files, so here's
> a patch to shorten its too-long lines.  In the process I shortened a
> diagnostic but the shortened version is clearer and easier to read so
> that should be OK.
>
> * build-aux/bootstrap: Rewrite to avoid lines longer than 80 columns.

Thanks.  That's a definite improvement.