Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 10:19:58 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre-lists@9online.fr> Cc: "current @FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: bin/41071: make NO to NO_ transition patch Message-ID: <20040417101206.N16280@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <022901c423cb$03f493b0$7890a8c0@dyndns.org> References: <00f401c4232b$8700d0c0$7890a8c0@dyndns.org> <022901c423cb$03f493b0$7890a8c0@dyndns.org>
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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > "Bruce Evans" <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > > > > > anyone interrested to validate and commit this PR ? > > > > I hope not. > > I hope yes since this was not the past agreement. I certainly didn't agree to it, and never would. > <cite "Mike Barcroft"> > In the past versions of this conversation, the general agreement is that > going forward we should probably standardize on underscores to seperate > words. So, NO_FOO rather than NOFOO. However, no_volunteer has come > forward to do the work you've described, so if you're volunteering.... > </cite> It was bad to encourage people to waste time on this. > the purpose of the original thread was to convert "all" variables to one > form or another, not just some of them for some or other reason. > in one word... be consistant, it's help. > it's not my fault if only some "no conforming" variables regarding all > others are used in so many makefiles. For a more modest task, try fixing the English spelling of "nothing" to "no thing" and "consistent" to "consistant". Bruce
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