Tony Peden writes:

 > Hardly. A side by side diff program such as gtkdiff or xxdiff (no doubt
 > emacs has such a feature as well) is human readable. You have obviously
 > taken the time to learn how to read a patch and become comfortable with
 > it, but I can't imagine they were ever *meant* to be human readable.

To put it differently, they make it easy to see what has changed
quickly, from the e-mail message itself.

 > > + They're smaller, and much more appropriate for posting to the
 > >   mailing lists.  This means that I can let everyone try the
 > >   virtual cockpit feature, instead of just the maintainers.
 > 
 > There's nothing wrong with posting *small* patches to the list, but do
 > keep in mind that some here are still on 56k and some of our European
 > members pay for access by the minute.

Perhaps we could create a flightgear-patches list, and people with low
bandwidth wouldn't have to subscribe.


All the best,


David

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