Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 11:48:33 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: ceri@freebsd.org Subject: Re: To PR Senders Message-ID: <20040821184833.GA26337@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040821183841.GA66189@gothmog.gr> References: <20040820133029.GE63041@abigail.blackend.org> <20040820103306.5f0ffb6f.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20040820205835.GH63041@abigail.blackend.org> <20040820222329.GA29749@gothmog.gr> <20040821165030.GA20785@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20040821183841.GA66189@gothmog.gr>
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--RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 09:38:41PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-08-21 09:50, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 01:23:29AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > If you really *do* need a recommendation for a size I think that 50k = is > > > about the size that things would probably start getting seriously ann= oying > > > for dialup users. Yeah, if a size must be explicitly specified 50k i= s ok. > > > > FYI, bde want's patches at least up to 100K, probably somewhat larger to > > be inlined. I'd personally, say that whatever he says is definitive (at > > least on the soruce says). >=20 > Well, yes. Something near 50-100 KB is ok. Not much larger though. >=20 > Diff output can get big even for relatively simple changes, if they're > mechanically applied to lots of files. If Bruce thinks that 100 KB is a > typical size of a "maximally acceptable inline patch", then he's probably > right and said that having in mind a lot more of patches than me. >=20 > Now, to get this topic resolved or at least closer to being resolved... > do we need to update the problem-reports related documentation to > include a suggestion that ``anything larger than 100 KB is probably too > big for inline inclusion, but less than 100 KB is usually ok?'' That seems reasionable. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBJ5kAXY6L6fI4GtQRAiGUAKCZeE8Io/JWWiMGlqKEc3xjGhHQHQCeLB8V zhu+P/S4RYQVz0GL0nQaibo= =Fq0r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1--
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