Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:40:25 -0500 |
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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
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