cvs commit: ports/lang/egcs/files patch-cp%decl.c patch-cp%ptree.c patch-cp::decl.c patch-cp::ptree.c patch-libiberty%Makefile.in patch-libiberty::Makefile.in ports/mail/exim-old/files patch-src%s

[David O'Brien]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:58:22PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote:
> > Want to see Bash imported?? if that's what it takes to stop the "::".
>
> I'm sorry, but I don't see the tone of this comment as being
> consistent with the "developer relations" section of the handbook.

I respond to flippancy with flippancy.


> Bikesheds about filename separators are one thing; bikesheds
> about duelling shell imports are quite another.  The former
> might or might not produce a working consensus; the latter
> is completely doomed from the outset.
>
> Please, let's keep this to the filename-separator problem.

Yes, lets.  We settled the patch filename-separator issue back in 2002 --
see the archives.  Unfortunately, the collective agreements aren't
remembered when there is so much personnel turnover.

RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/Tools/scripts/patchtool.py,v
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revision 1.10
date: 2002-04-18 17:46:42;  author: obrien;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -2
* Change path directory separator character back to _.  The problem is "::"
is it makes patch names longer, and many shells autoexpand it to "\:\:"
which makes them even longer.
* Note that this file uses ts=4.

Approved by:	sobomax
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