In view of the recent discussion about stripping comments off patches:
1. One of the issues is the fact that comments starting with // (rather
than enclosed by /* . . . */) are stripped off, rather than converted
from the first into the second.
The reason behind this is valid, although I doubt whether nowadays there
is any C compiler not supporting the // notation.
2. Is anyone else in favor of forking the Net-SNMP project over the
comments issue?
The forked version would follow the same policies as Net-SNMP except
that all comments are retained. Any // comments would be converted
into /* . . . */ comments by a commit script.
Rationale: I expect it to be easier to fix wrong comments than to
document and add comments to code lacking them.
--- Omer
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