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Sat, 26 Jul 2025 19:15:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Collin Funk Cc: Patrick Steinhardt , git@vger.kernel.org, Phillip Wood Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: document test balloons in flight In-Reply-To: (Collin Funk's message of "Thu, 24 Jul 2025 09:55:16 -0700") References: Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:15:21 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Collin Funk writes: >> So the only effect it would have is to smoke out truly slow platform >> maintainers; if their users are happy enough with such slow upgrade, >> they have lived and they can live with versions of Git that are >> years stale that we no longer care about. > > > For what it is worth, Gnulib and threfore Coreutils, among others, began > using compound literals in 2017 and it seems to have not caused any > problems [1]. Even 'pcc' supports them. Thanks. Our worry however includes platforms outside the Open Source and/or Free Software ecosystem, which would not be helped very much.