For there are dragons past the 80th column...
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 09:58:31PM -0500, Aaron W. Hsu wrote:
> Hey Steven,
>
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 23 17:30:43 2008
> From: Steven Mestdagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: ports@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: width of DESCR?
>
> Markus Bergkvist [2008-06-23, 22:25:49]:
>
> What should the width of DESCR be? "OpenBSD Porting
> Checklist"[1] says 'fmt -w 72' and "Port Testing
> Guide"[2] says 70 characters.
>
> I don't know where the fixation on 72 or 70 characters comes
> from. I'd say it really does not matter that much, as long as
> it does not exceed the usual 80 character terminal width.
>
> IIRC, the general usage of 72 characters was done as a courtesy for
> users who were replying to mails, in order to make quoting more
> reliable. If we us '>' as the quote character, than we could potentially
> have eight nested quotes going without having to rewrap things terribly
> much. With 72 characters, if one uses a tab character for quoting, this
> means probably about one quote level is still possible without having to
> rewrap the quote.
>
> As for why it would be a requirement in a ports DESCR file, I have no
> idea.
>
> Sincerely,
> Aaron Hsu
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