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Date:      Thu, 18 Feb 2016 21:32:04 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org>, Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@freebsd.org>,  "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r229537 - in head/sys: conf geom/uncompress modules/geom/geom_uncompress
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On 18 February 2016 at 21:20, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Well, what about "do it once, do it right" motto and ongoing code
> maintenance cost? Don't you think there should be a balance between those?
> Considering how similar the code really is what we've gained in "immediate
> availability" department we've already lost since in the time people spend
> doing cross merges between those two since 2011. Not even to mention time
> wasted by users of the feature dealing with bugs already fixed in the twin
> implementation and associated frustration. All that would be eliminated had
> this fork never happened.

Sure. But someone has to do that, and I made a decision that it was
better to commit /something/ than for everyone involved to run out of
time and nothing to be committed.

eg - a lot of ARM and MIPS work.

So yes, I'd love to see it fixed. I mean, heck, I fix up other stuff
and I completely forgot that this was still split. But geom_ulzma /
geom_gzip actually got us a whole lot of MIPS (and maybe some ARM)
users, so I believe it was worthwhile.

Thanks,



-adrian



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