Thomas Bushnell, BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > No, no, no. The preferred form is the preferred form for the author, > for *anyone*. It's what I would want to have, it's the real, actual, > genuine source. > > The preferred form is found by considering the *actual* forms which > exist--and seeing which one of them is *actually* preferred. The > uglified C code is *not* actually preferred, by anyone, to the > pre-uglified source.
However, if someone has reformated the uglified source and then corrected some security bugs in it or done extensive testing on a binary created from it then you might prefer to introduce a new feature using the uglified source rather than the pre-uglified source. Perhaps there is general agreement that a file derived from an uglified/obfuscated file may in some circumstances become the preferrred form for modification, but there is bound to be disagreement about how to characterise those circumstances. Edmund
