Re: [patch] ChangeLog width 74 -> 80

[Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:42:04 +0200, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Nobody said anything about bugs.  Nor is emacs a non-modern editor.

I do not understand why you have mentioned Emacs in the first place, it seems
irrelevant for GDB development.

I find correct to update existing Emacs rules to comply with the specification
but I do not think it matters to mention Emacs when deciding what should be
the GDB standard.


> As I said, I really don't care that much about the precise width.
> It'd be nice to have it changed consistently across the tree
> though.

One should define first what is "the tree", currently it contains many
directions which seems irrelevant for GDB decisions to me (tcl, texinfo,
newlib, rda, ...).

And even in that case GDB already contains Coding Style in gdbint.texinfo
specific only to gdb/ so unifying the ChangeLog standard across the tree
(whatever that means) is only that "nice to have", not a requirement.


Jan