Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: [Call For Wartectomy] CRLF conversion out of kernel | Date | 14 Jul 1999 11:48:40 -0700 |
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In article <linux.kernel.5l673njici.fsf@tequila.cs.yale.edu>, Stefan Monnier <monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu> wrote: >>>>>> "david" == david parsons <o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s> writes: >> Taking it out may kill backwards compatability. > >Noone cares.
Noone _on the linux kernel mailing list_ cares, you mean.
And guess what? That's not true; two people have already popped up and complained about it.
Sure, you can do things the MS-Windows way and arbitrarily break compatability from one version of Linux to the next (certainly this would be nothing new -- software engineering died of a buzzword overdose early in the 1990s -- but it would be nice to be able to recommend Linux in terms more glowing than "well, it's Unix, I guess.")
So CR/LF is a horrible hack that should never have been done in the first place. Good, it's a better lesson to kernel developers that when you design a published interface you need to do it well or else it will haunt you forever.
____ david parsons \bi/ And if I have to spend 3 months revalidating a system \/ every six months, the mythical TCO is gonna start looking really crappy.
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