From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2645 invoked by alias); 21 Mar 2006 16:46:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 2635 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Mar 2006 16:46:34 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from cantor.suse.de (HELO mx1.suse.de) (195.135.220.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:46:30 +0000 Received: from Relay1.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23A54EDF9; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:46:27 +0100 (CET) From: Andreas Schwab To: "Brian J. Fox" Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , Denis PILAT , Chet Ramey , Eli Zaretskii , , Subject: Re: [patch-readline] history file reading References: X-Yow: Are we on STRIKE yet? Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:02:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Brian J. Fox's message of "Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:29:20 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-03/txt/msg00248.txt.bz2 "Brian J. Fox" writes: > Since when do ChangeLog entries not say "why"? http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Log-Concepts.html#Change-Log-Concepts > Without this information, it is impossible to tell if the change needs > to stay or not in the future. "Why" should be written in a comment in the code, because that's where you are looking at if you wonder why something is done this way. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."