YouCompleteMe

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 04:35:13PM +0200, Michael Adam wrote:
> Ok, I reviewed that patch and let Andreas push it
> without going to the list, because I thought it
> would not disturb anybody.
> 
> But I see that David's general concerns are justyfied to
> some extent, especially the bloating when many more files
> for various build environments would be added.
> 
> Sorry to have created disturbance.
> 
> I think samba has a history of adding small developer
> convenience thingies to the tree from time to time,
> e.g. "make ctags".
> 
> What do others think: Should we allow this kind of
> convenience in the repo? Only in a special subdirectory?
> Or not at all? I don't know.
In general, adding things like this don't seem particularly problematic.
They're making life more convenient for some folks and don't get in the
way.

That said, it is more harmful to have outdated files in the tree
than to not have them at all. How will the manual list of include
directories be kept up to date?

Cheers,

Jelmer

> 
> On 2014-06-05 at 15:01 +0200, David Disseldorp wrote:
> > On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 14:37:18 +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thursday 05 June 2014 13:58:16 David Disseldorp wrote:
> > > > Hi Andreas,
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu,  5 Jun 2014 13:19:04 +0200 (CEST), Andreas Schneider wrote:
> > > > > Author: Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
> > > > > Date:   Wed Apr 2 09:01:41 2014 +0200
> > > > > 
> > > > >     Add YouCompleteMe config.
> > > > 
> > > > Would have been good to see this go by the list beforehand...
> > > > 
> > > > I'm not a fan of seeing developer environment tools, editor modelines,
> > > > add-ons and other accessories go into the source repo.
> > > 
> > > Why not? If you don't use it the file will not be loaded at all.
> > 
> > It's added bloat that is not in any way needed to develop, build,
> > deploy, document, maintain, run or manage the Samba
> > file/print/authentication servers and clients.
> > 
> > Once it's in the tree it's subject to the same code-review, maintenance
> > and auditing work-flow that is applied to the rest of the code-base,
> > inadvertently wasting other people's time.
> > 
> > Finally, it opens the flood gates for all other developer environment
> > tools and add-ons. Any takers for a cscope database? ;)
> > 
> > > > IMO this kind of
> > > > cruft should remain on the developers' system - people have differing
> > > > setups.
> > > 
> > > This file is for telling the compiler where to find the header files. I don't 
> > > think that you have different include directories inside the samba source 
> > > directory than I have.
> > 
> > We already have a build system to perform this. Surely you can still use
> > this tool if this file lives outside the Samba code-base.
> > 
> > Cheers, David