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Re: VMS support
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: VMS support |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:51:12 -0700 |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> > If you only can spend a few minutes at a time when doing this (and
> > I do), you can't write ChangeLogs when doing the work because they
> > will conflict on updates.
>
> You should place the ChangeLog text somewhere where it won't conflict
[snip]
Yes there are solutions to all these, but they mean just more work, and
mean changing the normal work style, which is equivalent to more work.
> > On the other hand the gain is inexistent.
>
> If someone ever intends to pick up this code and do something useful
> with it, having it cleanly delimited by before/after tags is
> very helpful. If it's not commited as a single commit, you risk having
> your change be interleaved with other unrelated changes. Of course, if
> nobody ever picks it up, the gain is indeed inexistent, but the cost
> really seems pretty minor compared to the effort needed to figure out
> how to remove the code (which parts to remove, etc...).
That's what I've been saying, its absolutely _not_ minor. And trading
requiring to do work now for _maybe_ avoiding work in the future when
_maybe_ someone _might_ pick up the code is a bad tradeoff.
So the question is, will you continue this policy?
- Re: VMS support, (continued)
- Re: VMS support, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2008/07/23
- Re: VMS support, Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/23
- Re: VMS support, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2008/07/24
- Re: VMS support, Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/24
- Re: VMS support, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/07/24
- Re: VMS support, Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/24
- Re: VMS support, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/07/27
- Re: VMS support, Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/27
- Re: VMS support, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/07/27
- Re: VMS support, Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/27
- Re: VMS support,
Dan Nicolaescu <=
- Re: VMS support, Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/27
- Re: VMS support, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/07/27
- Re: VMS support, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2008/07/28
- Re: VMS support, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2008/07/24
- Re: VMS support, Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/24
- Re: VMS support, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2008/07/24
Re: VMS support, Richard M Stallman, 2008/07/23