Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 03.07.2014, 10:44 +0200 schrieb Jan Stolarek:
Now, I understand people who don't want such change because of merge conflicts. But the truth is there will never be a good moment to implement such changes because there is always some ongoing work and outstanding branches.
when I first looked at GHC code I also thought “ugh, ugly”. But I can cope, it does not actually hinder me while working on GHC. On the other hand, having a “detab and rename” horizon where merging patches from before is much harder, and where "git log -L" and "git blame" fail to work properly would be a hindrance. Also, backporting patches from GHC HEAD to distribution releases would become annoying, for at least one release cycle. So my conclusion is that it’s ok to have the mess in the source code forever. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim “nomeata” Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de • http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Jabber: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de • GPG-Key: 0xF0FBF51F Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org