Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:07:50 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc pccard_ether rc rc.atm rc.devfs rc.diskless1 rc.diskless2 rc.firewall rc.isdn rc.network rc.pccard rc.resume rc.shutdown rc.suspend security src/etc/etc.alpha MAKEDEV rc.alpha src/etc/etc.i386 MAKEDEV rc.i386 src/etc/isdn answer isdntel.sh ... Message-ID: <19990914140750.F10106@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <37DDC76B.D799342@gorean.org>; from Doug on Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 08:56:27PM -0700 References: <199909131544.IAA26697@freefall.freebsd.org> <19990914104612.P10106@freebie.lemis.com> <37DDC76B.D799342@gorean.org>
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On Monday, 13 September 1999 at 20:56:27 -0700, Doug wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> On Monday, 13 September 1999 at 8:44:20 -0700, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >>> sheldonh 1999/09/13 08:44:20 PDT >>> >>> Log: >>> Apply a consistent style to most of the etc scripts. Particularly, use >>> case instead of test where appropriate, since case allows case is a sh >>> builtin and (as a side-effect) allows case-insensitivity. >>> >>> Changes discussed on freebsd-hackers. >> >> I thought we had agreed that -hackers wasn't an appropriate forum for >> this kind of discussion. > > Errr.. I don't remember a discussion about that. Why wouldn't it be, and > where would you rather have it discussed instead? It seems that a number of the -committers don't subscribe to -hackers. A few months back, I made some suggestions to -hackers, got positive replies, and committed the changes. Then some -committers came down on me like a ton of bricks, asking for it to be removed. During the ensuing discussion we decided that -hackers had been the wrong forum for discussing the problem. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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