Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

Rob Landley
2002-01-30T19:39:46Z

On Wednesday 30 January 2002 04:43 am, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 04:38:51AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> > Considering how much he's been warned so far about the need for CML2 to
> > maintain as much compatability as possible with CML1,
>
> Pardon me while I laugh my ass off.

[waits...]

> > behavior as possible in its first version, and not to make intrustive
> > changes into the rest of the codebase... I think he expected to be
> > flamed alive if he broke up the help file before CML2 went in.
> >
> > I.E. There was a miscommunication. (The drop from Linus was an actual
> > reject, but without an explanation of why it was rejected the reject
> > didn't get resolved. For 33 consecutive versions...)
>
> Getting told something point blank, multiple times, is definitely
> -something-. I suppose you could call that miscommunication.

I'm under the impression CML2 already supports the split-up per-directory
help files, and did long before Linus actually split it up. Therefore, Eric
hasn't entirely been ignoring the issue, has he?

Yes, I would call it a miscommunication.

(By the way, if you really want to fix the current cml1 stuff in the
cheesiest manner possible, what would be wrong with some variant of "find .
-name "*.hlp" | xargs cat > oldhelpfile.hlp"? Then the old help file becomes
a generated file of the new help files. Why mess with tcl/tk? Put it in the
make file as a dependency. Pardon me if somebody fixed it last night, I seem
have 91 emails to wade through since then on the patch penguin fallout
alone...)

> Jeff

Rob