From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Alignment issue with multiple describes
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:09:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3RdHLt-Jy6KNs23uhTXJHyak2YT4kpkhdykB_2Apz6TCA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s119Oa-zjAQ9KhwpdNZ7KG-MbwHqgW0FAnc6gj34+vrqQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 21/04/2013, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It doesn't matter how it's done, as long as the bug is fixed.
>
>> [*] Unfortunately the person most familiar with this code has not been
>> active in zsh development for 12 years. On the other hand, it's been
>> 12 years and you're the first person ever to notice/mention this, so it
>> probably doesn't affect anyone's usage of the shell.
>
> It probably does, but nobody cares enough about subtle bugs in zsh.
> Specially since most completions don't use more than one _description,
> the git completion being one exception.
>
> Anyway, I'm going to label this as a bug the zsh developers are
> unwilling to fix, and I'm going to work around it by avoiding more
> than one _description with actual descriptions.
>
> And BTW, the fact that you have part of the code nobody understands,
> has touched, or is willing to touch in a decade should be a concern to
> you. And so should be the decreasing year-over-year contributions and
> commits:
>
> https://www.ohloh.net/p/zsh/commits/summary
>
> I would say this is a sign that you should reconsider your development
> practices. But whatever, keep going the way you are going if you want.
Would appreciate if you stop trolling.
--
Mikael Magnusson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-21 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-21 3:03 Felipe Contreras
2013-04-21 3:03 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-21 6:27 ` Bart Schaefer
2013-04-21 8:31 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-21 18:27 ` Bart Schaefer
2013-04-21 20:59 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-21 21:09 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2013-04-21 22:00 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-22 6:59 ` Bart Schaefer
2013-04-22 7:30 ` Felipe Contreras
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