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Sure and I never maintained code written by others in 30 years... Never wrote patches, never had to comply with odd indentation habits. I am an absolute newbie on that subject. I always write new code and leave maintenance to other less fortunate people. --- end of ironic section --- I agree with you. Totally. Maintenance has never been funnier than new dev and will never be. Day to day maintenance specifically is a pain in the ass. Preemptive rewrites as part of maintenance is doable when the code reaches an unbearable state but someone in charge has to call the shots. I had numerous discussions about rewriting in the last few decades and yes patch consistency is always brought forward. The driving factors around a decision like this are: the life expectancy of the code vs it's complexity vs maintenance cost and agility vs risks involved in a rewrite vs budget vs accumulated knowledge. The maintainer's pain is not the only factor taken into account and often not the most important. That's the harsh reality of life. Ideally we would always write new stuff and trash code every 2/3 years to keep our mood at its peak. Life is not like that. Sorry :) Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 20, 2015, at 08:14, Nicola Mometto <brobro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I take it you have never worked on a patch for clojure. > I have, and I can tell you that it's not the indentation style the > issue -- everybody likes his own and it's definitely in the > maintainer's rights to chose what indentation style should be used and > for contributors to adapt, I don't have a problem with that. > I have a problem with the fact that the indentation style is not > consistent even between lines of the same method, tabs and spaces are > mixed everywhere -- for every non trivial patch I submit I have to > spend non trivial amounts of time to reindent my code using spaces or > tabs where appropriate to be consistent with the surrounding code and > making sure I don't accidentally commit whitespace changes in my > patches. > It's certainly not the biggest issue (not even close to it) in the > contributing process, but it definitely is an issue and it doesn't > help making the overall contributing experience a pleasant one, or one > would want to repeat. > > And the claim that no indentation fix can happen to avoid breaking > existing patches in jira is frankly laughable. With the amount of time > that usually passes between the writing of a patch and its application > to the code base, a lot of them already need to be rebased/rewritten > to apply cleanly, often multiple times. > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Luc Prefontaine > <lprefonta...@softaddicts.ca> wrote: >> Sure, indentation is what gets the code running on metal :)) >> >> Not ranting here, just my abs dying from the pain as I laugh :)) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
