Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Roland Mainz wrote:
> > As said I can remove them for the Makefiles+code we "own" now and the
> > others as late as possible since the "ident" stuff is the _major_ source
> > of bitrot. I don't want to play the "catch the ident changes"-game over
> > and over again since the time for that comes from my almost non-existing
> > chunk of free time...
> 
> Are you saying the ident lines in question are in the upstream source, not
> Sun added? 

No, no... I was thinking about the Makefiles, code, test suite modules
(e.g. we now try to create a seperate test suite module for each bug
filed in bugster, for example
http://svn.genunix.org/repos/on/branches/ksh93/gisburn/prototype012/usr/src/lib/libshell/common/tests/sun_solaris_cr_6713682_compound_var_bleeds_through_subshell.sh
is one of these things) etc. in
usr/src/lib/lib(shell|cmd|dll|sum|pp|ast)/, usr/src/cmd/ksh/ etc. which
are Sun-specific. AST upstream doesn't use "ident" lines...

> If so, then leaving them in permanently and having the ON CRT
> waive their removal is the only sane choice.   Upstream code should always
> be exempt from style and formatting rules such as ident removal and cstyle,
> since otherwise every update is an exercise in pointless time wasting.

I know...

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Bye,
Roland

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