svn commit: r268566 - head/usr.bin/users

[Bruce Simpson]

On 12/07/2014 16:31, Ian Lepore wrote:
> It is in no way established that any kind of "mess" exists.
On the contrary, the metrics and analysis which bde@ has presented seem 
pretty clear to me.

>    All we have
> is some people who appear to hate C++ expressing their opinions about
> how they hate C++.  All the whining about how many more bytes the
> compiled code is or many milliseconds something takes to compile don't
> add up to any actual problem.

Other developers may quite reasonably look out for code quality and 
preservation of non-functional requirements across the board. I am 
bemused that you characterize this as "whining", thus taking a technical 
discussion into "ad hominem" territory.

>
> My opinion is that the original commit message was exactly correct:  The
> code was rewritten to be cleaner and easier to understand and maintain.
> We need more of the same.
Metadata is not the same thing as content -- the commit message can be 
as erudite as one likes, but at the end of the day, if the change is of 
dubious value, people will call you on it.

Bruce