From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jan 30 2: 3:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from a96180.upc-a.chello.nl (a96180.upc-a.chello.nl [62.163.96.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44CD037B402 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 02:03:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by a96180.upc-a.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8DFA5216F; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:03:48 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:03:48 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai To: Terry Lambert Cc: Dallas De Atley , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: __P macro question Message-ID: <20020130100347.GG22384@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <3C57B51B.F38D1906@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C57B51B.F38D1906@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Organisation: Ninth Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Lots of snipping of irrelevant diatribing(verbifying nouns while I am at it)] -On [20020130 10:00], Terry Lambert (tlambert2@mindspring.com) wrote: >Current policy is to not add the macro to new code, but to >not remove it on old code, in order to minimize gratuitous >changes to the source tree. Maintenance includes gratuitous changes, otherwise you can never fully reach a new situation in which clean-ups are present, and you keep lugging along stuff from decades ago with no real use to the world anymore. But then again, I prefer consistency and cleanliness over easiness for developers. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / asmodai / Kita no Mono / xMach coreteam asmodai@[wxs.nl|xmach.org], finger asmodai@ninth-circle.org http://www.softweyr.com/asmodai/ Things do not change, we change... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message