Re: [Chicken-hackers] Parenthesis synonyms change

[Felix]

From: Peter Bex <address@hidden>
Subject: [Chicken-hackers] Parenthesis synonyms change
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 16:10:25 +0200

> Hi all,
> 
> Today I noticed that changeset bcb76e2997f8ec631a1a0f081980808d857eec15
> was pushed to the master branch, which changes the csi and csc
> commandline option `-no-parentheses-synonyms' to `-no-parenthesis-synonyms'.
> 
> I'm sure the change was made with the best intentions of fixing a
> trivial spelling mistake, but it definitely would've benefited
> from discussion on the list because it's a breaking change for
> people who are relying on this switch in their (build) scripts.
> 
> Furthermore, the change is not mentioned in NEWS and is incomplete;
> the option is only renamed for csi, not for csc, but the documentation
> and help say it should work for both.  Our peer review process
> *probably* would've caught these issues.
> 
> Anyway, I'm asking if this change could please be reverted and
> a (possibly improved) patch posted to the list for discussion.
> 

I have reverted it.


cheers,
felix