Am Donnerstag, den 09.02.2012, 07:52 +0200 schrieb jaalto: > On 2012-02-08 18:28, James McCoy wrote: > | > | > Motivation: > | > | > > | > | > - Recommended practise. The $() is recommend by many[2]. It nests > easily. > | > | > - Readability. In high resolution display a "tick" is hard to see. > | > | > Different font may also make reading the "tick" difficult to > distinguish. > | > | > - Typing convenience. The backtick key may be placed in difficult > | > | > position in non-US keyboard. E.g acrobatics is needed with > FI-keyboard > | > | > by pressing three keys in succession: AltGr + key + Space char > | > > | > Maintenance. It's a good idea to keep refactoring also old code in the > | > spirit of XP. > | > | I prefer the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach. Any code > | change, no matter how trivial, risks introducing a bug. > > That's an old fear based approach which hinders progress. If Gnome > would have done that we'd be still be in ice age. > > Better alternative is to keep moving forward with small > increments. Like with this one proposed.
I suggest a compromise: Add a bunch of test cases for debsign that are run on build time. Then you can demonstrate that your proposed changes do not break the test cases (and hopefully no other use cases). -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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