Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:01:47 +0100 From: Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-ports-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-ports-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r307951 - head/sysutils/sleuthkit Message-ID: <20121129130147.c5fcd6296c6bd967ca0745e4@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20121129032332.GA17732@FreeBSD.org> References: <201211290020.qAT0Kecl058401@svn.freebsd.org> <20121129020924.GC11624@FreeBSD.org> <20121129034450.f0d1802f0dd0c5c2396d1ebd@FreeBSD.org> <20121129032332.GA17732@FreeBSD.org>
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Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 03:44:50AM +0100, Emanuel Haupt wrote: > > I would say this is opinionated. I think it looks better that way. > > I've always removed double spaces (which most of the time were > > introduced trough copy pasting from webpages/manpages) in the past. > > And others were adding them back. This is totally bogus situation, we > should not adhere to different standards. > > Also 80-char limit is normally should be lowered down to 78 or even As 'the dude' would say: "yeah well, that's just like your opinion man" > 76 in some case if formatting looks better (more even at the right > edge), previous version complied to this as well. Now 'Mac' in the > line 7 touches the screen edge; the whole right edge is uneven. You > still thing it looks better, seriously? To me yes. The terminals xterm, rxvt, aterm, eterm all have a 80 character width: http://critical.ch/people/fbsd/standard-term-width-settings-xterm-rxvt-aterm-eterm.png > > --- begin quote --- > > Please be careful if you are copying from the README or manpage; too > > often they are not a concise description of the port or are in an > > awkward format (e.g., manpages have justified spacing). > > --- end quote --- > > Correct, because justified spacing normally does look ugly with > monospaced fonts. Double spacing (at the sentense breaks), on the > contrary, makes it look better. Please reconsider. I put a lot of Again: "your opinion" > thought into our port descriptions and it's really sad to see my work > destroyed. FreeBSD is a large project with > 400 committers and many more highly motivated active contributors. I would suggest you get familiar with the concept of people having different opinions. Accusing others of not caring or destroying "your work" (really? please...) is just rediculous. Emanuel
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