[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Fix useless dependencies in the stream lib

[Alban Bedel]

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 19:36:29 +0200
Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 07:57:06PM +0200, Alban Bedel wrote:
> > 
> > I must say that I'm very pleased to see that you simply ignored my
> > suggestion. Perhaps you should look up from your agenda from times
> > to times.
> 
> Your suggestion would not help the situation IMO, that's why I ignored
> it.

Then say so, my system still miss /dev/mindreader.

> Not everybody here uses emacs or vim and I cannot see how adding
> magic tags to all files could be less contentious than mandating a
> single style.

Sure not everybody use one of those. But any decent programming editor
is either compatible with vi and/or emacs tags or implement his own.
Also I would be ready to bet that at least half of the ppl with svn
account use vi, emacs or a compatible derivative.

Now if you look at the current situation, one have to look at the style
used and manually set it (a joy when the style doesn't match any of the
one predefined in your editor) or fight with indentation a lot. Add to
that a bit of laziness and/or oversight on the devs side and you get
the mess we have today.

With the tags at least a good portion of the devs would now have to
fight their editor to _not_ respect the file's style. IMHO that would
be a large improvement, especially when you take in account that tags
are unobtrusive and don't need to be applied to all files at once.
Sure it won't solve the problem for everybody, but that would still be a
non negligible improvement.

The only downside I can see is that it would give lees reasons to have a
common style ;)

	Albeu