Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:50:05 -0400 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> |
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>: > Why not having everybody's tree consistent with themselves and have whatever > CONFIGURE_* symbols and help text be merged along with the very code it > refers to? It's worthless to have config symbols be merged into Linus' or > Alan's tree if the code isn't there (yet). It simply makes no sense.
And now it has a cost, too. It makes finding real bugs more difficult. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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