On Mon Dec 27 10, Ade Lovett wrote: > > On Dec 26, 2010, at 15:00 , Alexander Best wrote: > > it seems this issue is one of the cases where everybody is too afraid to > > make > > the actual commit. :( > > More likely, it's a case of let's get 7.4/8.2 out the door, with the usual > rush of MFCs. > > I have a feeling that 9.0 (perhaps the entire 9.x tree) is going to be pretty > brutal. Whether it's with gcc and clang side by side, or just clang. A > change of this magnitude is going to _hurt_.
if i understood the previous comments correctly this change will have *no* impact whatsoever appart from keeping stdout/stderr a bit cleaner. well...of course rushing changes is not a good idea but the opposide is just as bad. there are hundreds of very techie discussions where developers aggree on a certain item, but after the discussions ends nothing happens. e.g.: - switching the source for pciconf - mfc'ing the latest awk release to stable/7 - fixing some serious data corruption in the mailinglist archives - revising BDECFLAGS - ... plus numerous PRs which contain *correct* patches, now outdated due to their age. also this is very discouraging. a lot of people stop their community support, since their work (e.g. patches) dye of old age in some problem report. personally i write far less patches than i used too, simply because most of the time nobody will help you get the patches committed, even if they fix trivial spelling mistakes in manual pages. just my 0.02$. cheers. alex > > -aDe > -- a13x _______________________________________________ freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-toolchain To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-toolchain-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
