Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re-indenting the configure script (please test)

[Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Guy Harris wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:46:12PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > I am not sure that I agree with wholesale cosmetic changes to the code.
> > 
> > They always cause the loss of important history.
> 
> I'm not sure there's history in a configure script (as opposed to a
> configure.in file from which it's generated) - we don't even keep the
> configure script under CVS for Ethereal (tcpdump does, but there's not
> much real history there, either, as it's a generated file).

I would agree with that, but ...
 
> I think he was saying that re-indentation might be useful when, for
> example, you're trying to debug a configure script, as you might
> actually have to understand what the script is doing.

I think that the implication was that configure.in should be re-indented 
as well, which I would object to (a little bit, at least).

Regards
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