Re: lynx-dev Re: [PATCH 2.8.4dev.18] GridText.c cleanup

[Vlad Harchev]

On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:03:39PM +0400, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:46:54AM -0500, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> > > > This patch does not add any new functionality.  All I did was I went
> > > > through more than 1000 lines of extremely badly written obfuscated C 
> > > > code
> > > > worthy of a first year CS student...
> > 
> >  As for my opinion on this and previous cleanup patch: I think we shouldn't
> > apply it, unfortunately - because there are unpublished patches that are
> > made against old version of GridText.c - e.g. in Klaus's tree and yes, in
> > mine too. Applying your cleanup patch will break those patches horribly.
> 
> since it's getting time to think about 2.8.4 pre-release, I'd rather see
> only patches for bug-fixes (cleanup patches per se introduce bugs as often
> as they fix them).

 I hope you won't apply GridText.c cleanup patch then :)
 
> otoh, unpublished patches are just that - things that I shouldn't have to
> take into account.

  Yes, it's the most reasonable attitude.

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 Best regards,
  -Vlad


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