Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:50:35 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: C++ pushback |
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> 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.
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