Re: C++ pushback

Martin Mares
2006-04-25T19:50:37Z

> Hahaha. So now, it's not good enough that they not ask you to do anything,
> they have to actively *prevent* you from choosing to waste time on their
> changes?

If you wish to interpret it that way, I won't prevent you :-)

Anyway -- what I meant is that even if somebody writes a patch changing
names to avoid collisions with C++, _merging_ such a patch could be
easily a waste of other people's time, especially when there is no
other advantage in merging such a patch (like if the reason is that
somebody wishes to port his closed-source driver to Linux [*]).

[*]: Not that I'm claiming that this is the case now, but it already
happened.

Have a nice fortnight
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Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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