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Re: 01/01: guix: Simplify and robustify lzread!.
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: 01/01: guix: Simplify and robustify lzread!. |
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Fri, 10 May 2019 23:40:50 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) |
Heya,
Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:
>>>>> guix: Simplify and robustify lzread!.
>>>> ^
>>>> Should be lzlib.
>>>
>>> Oops!
>>> I must confess that I never really understood the whole logic behind
>>> GNU-style commit message :p
>>
>> It’s really Guix-specific here, but the idea is that the word before
>> colon indicates the part of the code being modified, to provide a bit of
>> context.
>
> That makes sense. Where it makes less sense to me is when we prefix
> with "gnu:" for packages. Why GNU? Why not "packages:"?
Historical reasons. :-) Once upon a time that was “distro:”…
> No bug on an actual use case. I kept discussing with Antonio and he
> pointed out the potential issue. The solution occurred to me on a fresh
> sunny morning :D
Good. :-)
>> (I’m super cautious here but that’s because I spent countless hours
>> debugging code that used zlib and libbz2 and lzo in the past. :-))
>
> Yup, tell me about it... Took me weeks just to figure out basic
> (de)compression ;)
>
> But now that I have a better understanding of the library, I'm much more
> confident about the robustness and debugability of the bindings. Once
> things start adding up in your head, it's much more straightforward to
> see what goes wrong and how to fix it. (Stating the obvious here, but
> that's only true with good libraries, and lzlib is a good one.)
Alright, sounds good!
Thank you,
Ludo’.