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Date:      Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:17:18 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libypclnt Makefile 
Message-ID:  <200204182117.g3ILHIx08776@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Apr 2002 21:22:13 %2B0200." <20020418192213.GW24261@daemon.ninth-circle.org> 
References:  <20020418192213.GW24261@daemon.ninth-circle.org>  <200204181620.g3IGKIu51885@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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In message <20020418192213.GW24261@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai writes:
: -On [20020418 18:30], Dag-Erling Smorgrav (des@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
: >  Log:
: >  Back out previous commit, which was not at all approved by the maintainer
: >  of this code.  I very much doubt that "the FreeBSD way" really means "make
: >  it as unreadable and unmaintable as possible", and I would like Makefile

But your way is much more unreadable than david's.  Beauty is in the
eye of the beholder, and it is a bad idea to commit while angry
because it just makes you look back later.

: >  style (which is not currently documented anywhere except in the minds of
: >  bde and ru) to be discussed and agreed upon in the appropriate forum
: >  before any further commits of this kind happen.
: 
: I am starting to get a very, very high kindergarten feeling when seeing
: commits like these going back and forth.
: 
: ``Fix it my way! No mine! No, mine! No!  Mine!''  [Ad nauseum...]
: 
: Positive thing: the request for agreeing (Why do I see Angels of Doom coming
: for me?) on a single Makefile style.  [Of course, which would've been better
: as an email follow-up to the back out commit.]

Yes.  I think that the 1.8 style (david's) matches how the rest of the
tree is done better than the 1.9 style (des's).  I see no point to the
sill backout and wish that Des and David could get along better.

I'm a big fan for "make it match the rest of the tree" rather than a
long discussion that talks about the ideals of this or that but in the
end concludes that it would be too hard to do the whole tree so we
should be consistant rather than "right" for somebody's arbitrary
defintion of "right."  Do we have to always change just for the sake
of change?  No.

Looks like David has "tradition" on his side because there are almost
no other examples in the tree of things being done des' way.

Also, it has been pretty much universally agreed that we have no
strong maintainers anymore, so standing on those grounds to back out
the change, also without talking about it, is pretty flimsy at best.

Warner

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