[PATCH] Fix the build

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sat Sep 3 07:34:50 UTC 2016


On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 09:34 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Review appreciated!
> 
> Looking at commit 1c636532874da from a few weeks ago I begin to
> question
> the value of our README.Coding file. I've asked a few times to fix
> patches to follow the 80-column rule, I even provided patches to
> assist.
> 
> There's a reason why we have this rule: It's not that we are all
> sitting
> at 3270 or vt100 terminals. We want to avoid arbitrarily deeply
> nested
> control structures. It might be more work, but well-named factored
> out subfunctions foster unterstanding of complex code. Looking at
> dsdb_garbage_collect_tombstones(), we have four (!!)  levels of
> nested
> for-loops. One line I've just come across almost touches twice the
> 80-columns with its length of 157 chars.
> 
> So, shall we drop the README.Coding section on 80 chars, as it is not
> generally seen as worthwhile following?

No.  It is reasonable to request that the patches comply.

Sorry about that patch.  I'll get it fixed up. 

Andrew Bartlett

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