On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 11:34:07AM +0000, Andras Salamon wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 01:24:51AM +0000, Richard Russon wrote:
> >tl;dr -- I want to to extensively tidy the mutt code

> Moreover, consistency with a particular set of compiler standards will
> almost certainly ensure that some systems that currently happily
> compile and run mutt will no longer be able to do so.

Pardon?

I want to:
    Re-indent uniformly
    Add comments

I stressed that I'm making no functional changes.
Nothing that would affect the compilation.

> I'm disinclined to want to audit the result of wholesale changes to
> the code for cosmetic reasons and I am also disinclined to use a
> codebase I cannot audit effectively.

Anything that improves the legibility of the code and reduces ambiguity
will only serve to make auditing simpler.

> Large-scale changes would also conflict with the custom patches that
> nearly every Linux distro insists on slinging about.

Mutt won't accept the changes and the patches won't go away.

Downstream patches:
    Gentoo 59
    Debian 42
    Fedora  7
    Suse    2

Mutt seems to be held hostage to the downstream patches.
    
> So please don't.

No middleground whatsoever?

Cheers,
    Rich / FlatCap

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