Re: GNUstep Printing Backend Patch and such

[Adam Fedor]

On Jul 5, 2004, at 6:07 PM, Chad Hardin wrote:

> > - My opinion is that the new printing bundles should not be situated  
> > inside of GUI, but in some directory alongside to it, taking that  
> > huge amount of PPD files with them.
>
> Ok, I have no opinion either way, so I'll defer to the *step  
> leadership... :-)
> BTW, this is by means the final version, this is just "Round One".   
> Much more is to follow....
I think it should go in gui. It's not likely to be that large and it  
should be installed with the gui library.  I think the PPD files should  
be removed, though, and put somewhere else.

> Yeah, that was one of those things that seemed like a good idea at the  
> time.  :-).  I had read the FSF and GNUstep coding standards  
> (http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/Developer/ 
> CodingStandards/coding-standards_3.html#SEC3) and thought that while I  
> was "in the code" I would set everything right.  Of course, I wasn't  
> thinking about what it would look like when someone would look at the  
> patch.
We'd prefer that people don't reformat the code just to make it look  
nicer, as it makes it difficult to look through a patch and see what  
has really changed.  I know how hard this can be, having somewhat of a  
"neat and tidy" fetish myself. One could, however, put together a patch  
that says, "this patch makes the code look nicer and makes no other  
changes at all", so that people don't have to go looking through the  
patch in detail.