Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [MERGE REQUEST] changeset translation preparatory work

[Miles Bader]

On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 06:05:06PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
>  Multiply out the 30 seconds by the number of people, and you
> have something substantial.

YEah, but what's "the number of people"?  Certainly not everybody.

> 2) stuff like {arch}/=tagging-method is *my* source code.  I shouldn't
> have to use tom names for it.

It's be great if everything was infinitely customizable, but that's not
realistic -- everything has a cost, and if a change to make arch behave in a
way that's more aesthetically pleasing to you has major negative
consequences, it may simply not be worth it, if the demand is only a few
people here and there.

The brief description in your message made what your patch is doing sound
really hairy; are the additional bugs/code-obfuscation/maintainance issues
(and besides the cost to tla , non-tla code that has {arch} hard-wired in
some way will have to be changed too).

If the change is a major win for _other_ applications, maybe that tilts the
balance in your favor, I don't know.

-Miles
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