[MPlayer-cvslog] r24941 - trunk/mplayer.c

[Diego Biurrun]

Note that I have absolutely no interest in reviving this boring
flamewar...

On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 04:41:06PM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 16:37 -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > And actually the policy seems to be that people who care fix problems
> > like this when they come up, since certain developers refuse to play
> > by any rules...
> 
> The standard in open source is that those people who have skill and
> actually do things decide how to do them. How many current developers
> can work on the core functionality and overall architecture? How many do
> changes that are even at the level of the audio changes this commit was
> part of? Reimar seems to be the only one who does anything at all
> similar. If someone tells me (or Reimar for that matter) how to do C
> development based on rules that some other people decided I'm not going
> to take them very seriously.

Great, so can we please form a non-aggression pact at this point?

Obviously nobody can stop you from mixing declarations and statements,
but could you please refrain from flaming the people that clean up after
you?  I'll have them refrain from making snide remarks in the commit
messages in return.

> Especially when the most often cited "rules" seem to come from old
> development practices that were already seen not to work and turned
> the code into a mess.

Which rules lead to a mess and why please?

Diego