From owner-cvs-all Mon Sep 13 21:38: 1 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E25491516C; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:37:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA18299; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:07:53 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id OAA26529; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:07:50 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:07:50 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Doug Cc: Sheldon Hearn , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc pccard_ether rc rc.atm rc.devfs rc.diskless1 rc.diskless2 rc.firewall rc.isdn rc.network rc.pccard rc.resume rc.shutdown rc.suspend security src/etc/etc.alpha MAKEDEV rc.alpha src/etc/etc.i386 MAKEDEV rc.i386 src/etc/isdn answer isdntel.sh ... Message-ID: <19990914140750.F10106@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199909131544.IAA26697@freefall.freebsd.org> <19990914104612.P10106@freebie.lemis.com> <37DDC76B.D799342@gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <37DDC76B.D799342@gorean.org>; from Doug on Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 08:56:27PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Monday, 13 September 1999 at 20:56:27 -0700, Doug wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> On Monday, 13 September 1999 at 8:44:20 -0700, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >>> sheldonh 1999/09/13 08:44:20 PDT >>> >>> Log: >>> Apply a consistent style to most of the etc scripts. Particularly, use >>> case instead of test where appropriate, since case allows case is a sh >>> builtin and (as a side-effect) allows case-insensitivity. >>> >>> Changes discussed on freebsd-hackers. >> >> I thought we had agreed that -hackers wasn't an appropriate forum for >> this kind of discussion. > > Errr.. I don't remember a discussion about that. Why wouldn't it be, and > where would you rather have it discussed instead? It seems that a number of the -committers don't subscribe to -hackers. A few months back, I made some suggestions to -hackers, got positive replies, and committed the changes. Then some -committers came down on me like a ton of bricks, asking for it to be removed. During the ensuing discussion we decided that -hackers had been the wrong forum for discussing the problem. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message