From owner-cvs-all Thu Apr 18 18: 1:18 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from zoot.corp.yahoo.com (zoot.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.52.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07F4137B41C; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:00:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoot.corp.yahoo.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zoot.corp.yahoo.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3J10uHW008964; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:00:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (dougb@localhost) by zoot.corp.yahoo.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g3J10u3u008961; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:00:56 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: zoot.corp.yahoo.com: dougb owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:00:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-X-Sender: dougb@zoot.corp.yahoo.com To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Cc: "David E. O'Brien" , , Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/Tools/scripts patchtool.py In-Reply-To: <20020418192829.GA25519@madman.nectar.cc> Message-ID: <20020418175817.K8772-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:50:59AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > > > > > IMHO there was value in doing it in one consistent, mostly unambiguous > > > fashion, even if it wasn't `perfect'. `_' isn't perfect either, IMHO, > > > and I'd rather not change just because it is someone's pet peeve. > > > > One could argue that the :: convention came after some of us had > > already started using _, but without making so much noise about it. > > One could, but I don't think that's the point. But, but... it was YOUR point just a second ago. :) > OTOH, that leaves over 88% of the port patch files still using the old > convention or not including directory names. I snipped the rest of your stats, because I think this is the telling item. It's not to late to fix something that looks like it might be broken. > We had this same thread some time ago, and we picked a convention and > stuck with it Pardon me for missing that discussion, but sometimes things need to change because operational issues (which always reach a wider audience) highlight problems that weren't apparent from theoretical discussions. It's part of life in our world. -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message