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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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