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Re: gratuitous changes
From: |
Juanma Barranquero |
Subject: |
Re: gratuitous changes |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:22:12 +0100 |
On 04 Feb 2003 09:14:09 -0800, Robert Anderson <address@hidden> wrote:
> You did, but perhaps it would have been polite to confer with Stefan
> first, to have the best timing on it.
I asked if anyone opposed the change in any way, and no one did. I asked
about branches, and Stefan answered in private mail about the issue. I
haven't heard a single voice (till now) saying "wait". I honestly don't
think I'm being impolite.
> IMO, that was not the optimal way to do it, both because it wasted your
> time and it makes it harder for people to do a parallel change without
> wasting their own.
IMO, that was the optimal way to do it, because I got to decide what
files and how to change, instead of relying in a mindless bulk
substitution of some sort (even if the script has a lot of inteligence).
> Food for thought: a script would have left a precise prescription for
> what you did that was trivially applicable to other branches as well as
> sandboxes to prevent the kinds of merge and update problems this was
> trying to minimize.
And more food for thought: I have a few years of experience in
programming, I've got some tools (Perl among them) at hand, and still I
decided to do by hand what is undoubtedly a very boring task...
Anyway, the Unicode branch is still unchanged. If you have a better
method, by all means, go for it. I'd *love* for you to do the change
with a script and save me the effort.
/L/e/k/t/u
- Re: gratuitous changes, (continued)
- Re: gratuitous changes, Juanma Barranquero, 2003/02/04
- Re: gratuitous changes, Robert Anderson, 2003/02/04
- Re: gratuitous changes, Juanma Barranquero, 2003/02/04
- Re: gratuitous changes, Robert Anderson, 2003/02/04
- Re: gratuitous changes,
Juanma Barranquero <=
- Re: gratuitous changes, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/02/04
- Re: gratuitous changes, Juanma Barranquero, 2003/02/04
- Re: gratuitous changes, Stefan Monnier, 2003/02/04
- Re: gratuitous changes, Nick Roberts, 2003/02/04
- Re: gratuitous changes, Edward O'Connor, 2003/02/04
- Re: gratuitous changes, Juanma Barranquero, 2003/02/04
- Re: gratuitous changes, Kim F. Storm, 2003/02/04
- Re: gratuitous changes, Kim F. Storm, 2003/02/04
- Re: gratuitous changes, Kenichi Handa, 2003/02/04
- Re: gratuitous changes, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/02/04