Re: history (Was Re: Corel/Debian Linux Installer)

1999-09-20 Thread Zygo Blaxell
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 07:30:37 -0500, David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:38:29AM +0100, Chris Rutter wrote: >> On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, David Bristel wrote: >> Yes, either this or a FIFO expiration policy on /var/cache/apt/packages >> which gets automatically applied whe

Re: Question on grep 2.3-5 for potato

1999-09-16 Thread Zygo Blaxell
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:02:48 -0400, Chris Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I was wondering if grep/fgrep/egrep are meant to be seperate programs >or, hard links to one binary? If I take a long listing of the *ep files >in /bin, they are all 47616 bytes, but they all only have one file >link. Do

Re: Debian coding style?

1999-05-10 Thread Zygo Blaxell
adjust existing code to the correct style. It doesn't suggest any particular coding or testing techniques at all. Other Linux documents describe procedures (e.g. how to prepare and submit a patch) and technique (although defining coding technique in a kernel is always approximate at best, and

Re: Debian coding style?

1999-05-09 Thread Zygo Blaxell
han once because of multiply-defined enumerated types. Or something, I forget what at the moment. We decided that autoconf was better at that sort of thing anyway, and that we should not be feeding 64-bit-unclean code to an Alpha. -- Zygo Blaxell, Linux Engineer, Corel Corporation. [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Debian coding style?

1999-05-09 Thread Zygo Blaxell
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Zygo Blaxell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmmm...somehow I dropped this text about checking things into a source repository: Many open-source projects do have public CVS repositories but generally do not liberally hand out write access

Re: Debian coding style?

1999-05-09 Thread Zygo Blaxell
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Oliver Elphick wrote: >Zygo Blaxell wrote: > >>10. Function/method size: bigger is not better. Functions and methods shoul > >d > >>be kept to a maximum of 40-50 lines. Larger methods should be broken down > >>into

Re: Debian coding style?

1999-05-09 Thread Zygo Blaxell
understand the rationale for this? egcs behaves identically in both cases as far as I can tell. Of course, missing from any Corel coding style document is a good set of rules for making life easier for people who have to do ports, especially those who cannot use Microsoft compilers for the target archi