"David O'Brien" wrote:

| On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 03:04:16PM -0700, Bill Swingle wrote:
| > So this represents my most significant effort to date to fix something
| > in C. It took me far too long to identify where the one line fix needed
| > to go and even longer to figure out how to do it in C. 
| > 
| > Here's the problem that this fixes:
| 
| This was introduced in rev 1.38:
| 
|     and replace a big if..then..else construct
|     to determine the package download directory with a lookup table.
| 
| I am very tempted to back this part out.  This "better implimentation"
| has now had two logic bugs.  I wrote that "big if..then..else contstruct"
| so that the code would be *so* simple my simple my 1st quarter freshman
| students (back when I TA'ed) could understand it.  I did it that way
| because I got tired of committers constantly breaking -r.

Simple and correct is always better than clever and wrong.  I'd
be strongly in favour of backing it out.

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