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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Sep 2003 17:54:31 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Dustin Sallings <address@hidden>
> I definitely wouldn't point anyone to a patch that didn't consider
> EDITOR. I like vi, and I believe it should be the default since it's
> most likely to be there and working correctly on all systems (the emacs
> that ships with OS X is unusable, for example). It's too easy to check
> for EDITOR, to avoid it.
Nah, the default should be ed(1), of course.
> Overall, I think this is a much easier thing than most of the
> arguments I've been having here. :) There's no reason this can't be
> implemented in such a way as to make everybody happy (well, except for
> the people who want it to work their own custom way without having to
> configure it to do so, but they don't count).
walters gets the prize for making the argument in a way I can grok.
I'm sure our messages are crossing in the mail but take a look at my
reply to him and express your opinion.
I sense that there's some new folks around lately and arch looks like
a brand new, hence infinitely pliable thing. Please try to appreciate
that it's a bit more mature than that with all the attendent
subtleties and internal relationships in design that that implies.
Change is very much possible -- just not (some forms of) casual
change. It's not accident that it's good -- there won't be an
accident that makes it stop being good, if I can help it.
The other thing to keep in mind is that the core is now over 50K LOC.
That's way too much. A bit of refactoring here and there can help
with that but the danger of bloat is rearing its ugly head.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Dustin Sallings, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Tom Lord, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Miles Bader, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Dustin Sallings, 2003/09/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch,
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Dustin Sallings, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, MJ Ray, 2003/09/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Dustin Sallings, 2003/09/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, MJ Ray, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Dustin Sallings, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Mark A. Flacy, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, David Brown, 2003/09/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Dustin Sallings, 2003/09/26