Re: line-move-visual

[Mark Crispin]

On Sun, 6 Jun 2010, Thad Floryan posted:
> This is OT so I'll keep it short.  Similar braindamage recently with
> Fedora where a developer stated "I don't particularly care how UNIX
> has always worked."

Wow.

I've dealt with broken "improvements" in RedHat/Fedora before; they don't 
seem to have a very good review process for functionality changes.  The 
two that I remember the most are making flock() return ENOLCK for an NFS 
file (instead of no-op) and getaddrinfo() doing a reverse DNS lookup for 
the ai_canonname return value.  In both cases, the developer insisted that 
the change was a "fix", never mind all the applications that were broken 
by it.  Eventually, both of these changes were reverted after a huge hue 
and cry.

This one takes the cake.

I don't know which amazes me more, the fact that such an ill-conceived 
change was made in the first place, or the developer's reaction when 
called to account.

-- Mark --

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