On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 21:36 +0100, Eric Botcazou wrote: > > I'd go even further, and say if the GNU coding standards say we > > shouldn't be putting descriptions of why we are changing things in the > > ChangeLog, than they should be changed and should be ignored on this > > point until they do. Pointing to them as the if they are The One True > > Way seems very suspect to me. After all, how else would they ever > > improve if nobody tries anything different? > > The people who wrote them presumably thought about these issues, too. >
Unfortunately they didn't document the "why" just the "what"! Tim Josling
