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 > > 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. 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. Large-scale changes would also conflict > with the custom patches that nearly every Linux distro insists on > slinging about. > > So please don't.
Thanks for your feedback. Richard initially approached Michael (me) and I off-list, but after voicing my reservations I directed him here to get other developer's feedback. The patches were my biggest concern, followed by the fact this isn't really near the top of the list of things needing done. You raise another good point: reviewing large-scale changes (even, or especially, unnecessary cosmetic ones) is an additional burden we can probably do without right now, given the small size of the active development team. Other's feedback is most welcome, but I am disinclined to give my support to this effort too. -- Kevin J. McCarthy GPG Fingerprint: 8975 A9B3 3AA3 7910 385C 5308 ADEF 7684 8031 6BDA http://www.8t8.us/configs/gpg-key-transition-statement.txt
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