Good point; I assume you're going to emphasize the pitfalls of dynamic
patching while you're at it, Derek? I have a habit of opening up
patches to see how they work, and if I can't read them because they're
too messy, I'll move stuff around. This is fine, unless it's a dynamic
patch and I hit "ctrl-s" without thinking. D'oh! The initial state of
a dynamic patch is critical to its correct function, and one has to
think very carefully before saving changes. I think I'm going to
develop the habit of putting a large warning comment on any
self-modifying patch.
Phil
IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
however, my experiences with abcde were the main reason i s did not
touch self-modifying patches for years and years.
the lesson i learned was: never do self-modification in patches that
other people will ever have to regularily use.
(the original phrase would have been "never do self-modification in
patches that other people will ever have to maintain"; however, this
might give the impression that chances are low that somebody else will
really have to "maintain" a patch); in practice you pass
maintainership to somebody as soon as you give them your patch: they
will eventually start to modify it.
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