From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17362 invoked by alias); 21 Mar 2006 20:02:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 17335 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Mar 2006 20:02:18 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from romy.inter.net.il (HELO romy.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:02:11 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-209-237.inter.net.il [80.230.209.237]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id DUN96861 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:02:05 +0200 (IST) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 05:15:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Andreas Schwab CC: bfox@ai.mit.edu, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, bash-maintainers@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Andreas Schwab on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:46:21 +0100) Subject: Re: [patch-readline] history file reading Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: 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/msg00251.txt.bz2 > From: Andreas Schwab > Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , > Denis PILAT , Chet Ramey , > Eli Zaretskii , , > > Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:46:21 +0100 > > "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. Right.