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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Alex Z hits again !
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-04-01 13:00:09
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On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 01:43:57AM -0800, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> 
> >Alex ! Since when do you disable stuff without
> >1 - a meaningful log message ("oh yeah" doesn't really help)
> 
> Hmm.  Since everyone else does it?  Please, I'm the wrong person to talk to
> about informative log messages, in fact I've piped up nearly everytime I
> see an empty or useless messages

Well, use your own advice, then.

> and yes, I'd like to see people use commit
> -F if they can come up with a better description after the fact.  And oh
> yes, I'm glad you found use for cvs diff (since changing two lines makes
> for such a large diff I know it can be imposing).

...as if I had the time to use cvs diff on any commit that is done on the
whole CVS... !!!

> >2 - a mail to the mailing-lists to discuss the subject
> >and explain why you disabled it, what problems you have with it,
> >what possible solutions there are ?
> 
> Actually, this was done.  No, I didn't feel like a discussion, because that
> rarely accomplishes anything here, and besides the code was horridly
> hackish, and its breakage was not just a FreeBSD thing, it was gcc 2.95.x
> being more stringent about code that it accepts.

Does the new code work better ?

> >Doing this doesn't help anybody.
> 
> Yes, actually it helps me and anyone else using a newer version of gcc.
> The changes I made were minimal, and really didn't disable any important
> code.  Yes a crash handler is a nice idea, if it doesn't make broad
> assumptions and do blasphemous things with function pointers.
> 
> - alex

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