On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Nate Williams wrote:
> > > > *rant on*
> > > > Brian, FreeBSD isn't your private playground for playing around, this is
> > > > a group project, and you gotta follow the rules, or you don't get to
> > > > play with the rest of the folks....
> > >
> > > The rules don't say "leave the code that you work with in a bigger mess
> > > than
> > > when you started." Cleaning up code is a fact of life, and it _NEEDS_ to
> > > be
> > > done to get work done, very often. You have to learn to deal with that.
> > >
> > > > *rant off*
> >
> > and so it should remain, changes that provide readability to
> > code should be committed, the only time documentation of code
> > is wrong is when it it is incorrect.
>
> The changes pointed out do *NOT* make the code more readable. They just
> move statements around for no reason, and change whitespace.
It makes it more readable if you understand and use KNF instead of
try to bastardize everyone else's code.
>
> > Increasing the size of the cvs repo is not a consideration when
> > worthwhile docs can be incorperated, especially when the person
> > who needs to maintain it requires changess for readability.
>
> Brian is *NOT* the maintainer, he is the author of a patch to it.
I'm one of the people who actively works on it. Who are you?
>
> Doesn't anyone care for keeping the source code consistant *AND*
> maintainable for multiple people, as well as maintaining a history of
> *CHANGES* for people to review in the future?
What do you think KNF is about? I'll bring out the big guns now (BDE).
>
> Or is this Linux, where we don't give a rip and whatever the current
> patch does to the rest of the tree is fine, since the more code we have
> the better?
>
You have no idea what you're talking about, WRT FreeBSD.
>
>
> Nate
>
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