From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Olivier Certner <ocert.dev@free.fr>
Cc: 63072@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63072: 28.2; CC Mode: Fix "bsd" style and add "freebsd" and "openbsd" ones
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 16:32:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fs8mu5ui.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5569144.NofZdxuNk6@ravel> (message from Olivier Certner on Wed, 26 Apr 2023 15:09:21 +0200)
> From: Olivier Certner <ocert.dev@free.fr>
> Cc: 63072@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 15:09:21 +0200
>
> > If the styles don't change in practice, then I'm okay with adding
> > them. But then I wonder why you bothered to mention the fact that
> > they do change.
>
> I thought this was clear, but apparently not. I mentioned the possibility of a
> change, yes, because you and I care about backwards compatibility. To quote
> you: "I don't think we can change a style that was in use for such a long
> time".
>
> There may be changes in the project styles, maybe next month, maybe in ten
> years, maybe in twenty. I do not think the probability is 0 over such a long
> period of time. What I would not want is you or someone else telling me in 10
> or 20 years, after such a change: "I don't think we can change a style that
> was in use for such a long time". What I want instead is that, e.g., "freebsd"
> can be changed as necessary. I specifically do not want to then be told to
> create another style named "freebsd2" or whatever. For that to be possible,
> users must be warned that these styles, although almost always stable, are
> not, and will not, be set in stone for eternity, contrary to, perhaps, "bsd"
> or "whitesmith". And I even offered a scheme with additional styles that will
> never change, if you think that is useful (I think it might be and is so cheap
> to implement that I think we should do it anyway, even if in the end nobody
> uses it).
>
> Is that clear now?
Given all that, I'm not sure we should single out these new styles at
all. Once in 10 years any constant is eligible for a change.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-26 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-25 17:49 bug#63072: 28.2; CC Mode: Fix "bsd" style and add "freebsd" and "openbsd" ones Olivier Certner
2023-04-25 18:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-25 20:57 ` Olivier Certner
2023-04-26 5:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-26 7:28 ` Olivier Certner
2023-04-26 9:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-26 9:31 ` Olivier Certner
2023-04-26 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-26 13:09 ` Olivier Certner
2023-04-26 13:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-04-26 13:53 ` Olivier Certner
2023-04-26 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-05 16:01 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-15 12:41 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-19 16:15 ` Olivier Certner
2023-09-21 15:22 ` Stefan Kangas
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