[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Fix useless dependencies in the stream lib

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:47:54PM +0200, Alban Bedel wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 19:36:29 +0200
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> 
> > Not everybody here uses emacs or vim and I cannot see how adding
> > magic tags to all files could be less contentious than mandating a
> > single style.
> 
> Sure not everybody use one of those. But any decent programming editor
> is either compatible with vi and/or emacs tags or implement his own.
> Also I would be ready to bet that at least half of the ppl with svn
> account use vi, emacs or a compatible derivative.

I'll hold that bet.  What do you want to wager?  A beer at next
LinuxTag?  A night's beers? :-)

I generally use vim for quick edits and GNU emacs for longer sessions.

> Now if you look at the current situation, one have to look at the style
> used and manually set it (a joy when the style doesn't match any of the
> one predefined in your editor) or fight with indentation a lot. Add to
> that a bit of laziness and/or oversight on the devs side and you get
> the mess we have today.
> 
> With the tags at least a good portion of the devs would now have to
> fight their editor to _not_ respect the file's style. IMHO that would
> be a large improvement, especially when you take in account that tags
> are unobtrusive and don't need to be applied to all files at once.
> Sure it won't solve the problem for everybody, but that would still be a
> non negligible improvement.

I think you will have a hard time reaching such a consensus.  Getting
people to agree on a common style should not be much harder.

> The only downside I can see is that it would give lees reasons to have a
> common style ;)

That's a good reason, why reduce the pain threshold? ;-)

Diego