Re: refactoring when using CVS

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 06:25:13 (-0800), Noel Yap wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: refactoring when using CVS
>
> >     $ wc -l $(find . \( -name CVS -prune \) -o -type f -print)     
> >     ksh: wc: Argument list too long
> 
> If you'd read anything I posted, you'd know that the
> number of lines of code is irrelevant.  What is
> relevant is the number of files.

And if you had even a glimmer of an understanding of what I actually
demonstrate above you'd know that the *BSD kernel contains more
filenames than will fit on a *BSD command line, which is 2**18 bytes and
even with an average of up to 16 chars in a filename that's still one
heck of a lot of files.  And that's in the kernel alone.

> > Refactoring (at any level) does not _require_
> > renaming files!!!!
> 
> It requires being able to rename files when you're
> programming in Java.

That's an IDE issue with Java programming, not a language issue.

> > Now except for the "Fix XP when it breaks" rule
> > there's the other rule
> > about changing the pairing frequently....  ;-)
> 
> This is even more of a reason why it's extremely
> unlikely open source development uses XP.

How do you know they didn't "Fix XP when it broke for them"!?!?!?!?

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                                                                Greg A. Woods

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