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bug#63072: 28.2; CC Mode: Fix "bsd" style and add "freebsd" and "openbsd
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#63072: 28.2; CC Mode: Fix "bsd" style and add "freebsd" and "openbsd" ones |
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Wed, 26 Apr 2023 13:31:56 +0300 |
> From: Olivier Certner <ocert.dev@free.fr>
> Cc: 63072@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 11:31:28 +0200
>
> > > Additionally, these changes will be exceedingly rare, and styles will just
> > > be updated on a best-effort basis.
> >
> > The "best-effort" part is what bothers me. We introduce these new
> > styles because the relevant projects change the styles, and then we
> > basically tell users: don't expect these styles to actually follow
> > those projects, except by luck? Does that make sense?
>
> By luck? The last changes in these styles with a practical consequence for CC
> mode were done more than 20 years ago. Had the changes proposed here been
> done
> at that time, users would have been able to use the right style since then.
>
> Truth is, users not having the right style would be extremely unlucky, given
> the rate of changes (practically zero). These styles are *intended* to follow
> these projects' practice. And they will so more than 99% of the time. Of
> course, if a style changes and requires a CC style modification, then someone
> will have to submit it and in the meantime users will have to live with the
> discrepancy. Is that what really bothers you? That's what best effort means.
> Again, this will be useful to the relevant users more than 99% of the time.
If the styles don't change in practice, then I'm okay with adding
them. But then I wonder why you bothered to mention the fact that
they do change.
- bug#63072: 28.2; CC Mode: Fix "bsd" style and add "freebsd" and "openbsd" ones, Olivier Certner, 2023/04/25
- bug#63072: 28.2; CC Mode: Fix "bsd" style and add "freebsd" and "openbsd" ones, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/04/25
- bug#63072: 28.2; CC Mode: Fix "bsd" style and add "freebsd" and "openbsd" ones, Olivier Certner, 2023/04/25
- bug#63072: 28.2; CC Mode: Fix "bsd" style and add "freebsd" and "openbsd" ones, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/04/26
- bug#63072: 28.2; CC Mode: Fix "bsd" style and add "freebsd" and "openbsd" ones, Olivier Certner, 2023/04/26
- bug#63072: 28.2; CC Mode: Fix "bsd" style and add "freebsd" and "openbsd" ones, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/04/26
- bug#63072: 28.2; CC Mode: Fix "bsd" style and add "freebsd" and "openbsd" ones, Olivier Certner, 2023/04/26
- bug#63072: 28.2; CC Mode: Fix "bsd" style and add "freebsd" and "openbsd" ones,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#63072: 28.2; CC Mode: Fix "bsd" style and add "freebsd" and "openbsd" ones, Olivier Certner, 2023/04/26
- bug#63072: 28.2; CC Mode: Fix "bsd" style and add "freebsd" and "openbsd" ones, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/04/26
- bug#63072: 28.2; CC Mode: Fix "bsd" style and add "freebsd" and "openbsd" ones, Olivier Certner, 2023/04/26
- bug#63072: 28.2; CC Mode: Fix "bsd" style and add "freebsd" and "openbsd" ones, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/04/26